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  Lot 614
 

CIRCLE OF DOMENICO FETTI (ROME 1589 - VENICE 1629)

CIRCLE OF DOMENICO FETTI (ROME 1589 - VENICE 1629)
Jacob's dream
brush and red wash on paper, heigthened with pen and black ink, indented
345 x 411 mm (13 1/2 x 16 1/8 in)

Bears inscription in pen and brown ink on the reverse Miradoro orig

The present work records in reverse the Dream of Jacob painting by Domenico Fetti. Safarik lists nine known versions of this composition by Fetti and his followers (1). The prime version is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 3819) and shows the angels ascending on a golden staircase. There is no print of the painting.

(1) E. Safarik, Domenico Fetti: 1588/89 - 1623, exh. cat. Palazzo Te, Mantua, Milan 1996, pp. 198

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