Maestri – Amor nobile

Michelangelo Maestri (Rome, c. 1779–1812)

AMOR NOBILE

Circa 1800

Gouache on heavy laid paper, 24 x 32.9 cm (sheet size: 32.8 x 41 cm)

Titled at the bottom centre and inscribed and signed on the left and right: Raf. Sanz. Urb. Inv., MichAng. Maestri, face in Roma

Provenance:

Bernheimer Collection, Munich;

Sotheby’s, London, Bernheimer Sale, 25 November 2015

After Raphael’s frescoes in Cardinal Bibbiena’s bathroom in the Vatican