Name: VINCENZO MEUCCI (FLORENCE 1699-1766 BOLOGNA)
Brand: Flora and Zephyr
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

VINCENZO MEUCCI (FLORENCE 1699-1766 BOLOGNA)
Flora and Zephyr
with numbers '201' and '49.' (recto) and with inscription 'Maratta/ No 9' (verso) and with inscription 'Carlo Maratti' (on the old mount)
black chalk, grey wash
16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 28 cm)

Prof. Dr. Adam Politzer (1835-1920), Vienna (L. 2037).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 1 April 2011, lot 36.

C. Lenzi-Iacomelli, Vincenzo Meucci, Florence, 2015, no. 15, ill.

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A pupil of Sebastiano Galeotti and Giovanni Gioseffe dal Sole, Meucci was a prolific painter decorating numerous palazzi and churches in Florence. One of his most important commissions, which he received from Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, was the decoration of the cupola of the San Lorenzo, Florence. This drawing, dated by Carlotta Lenzi-Iacomelli between 1725 and 1750, does not seem to relate to any known surviving painting or fresco. The sheet is close in style, technique and subject matter to a drawing showing the Goddess Flora in the Palais desBeaux Arts, Lille (see B. Brejon de Lavergnée, Catalogue des Dessins italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris and Lille, 1997, nos. 429, ill.).