TAVELLA, CARLO ANTONIO
('Il Solvarola')1668 Milan - 1738 Genoa


Title: Landscape with St John in the Desert.
Technique: Pen drawing on paper.
Measurement: 17 x 26,5cm.
Notation: Inscribed from the artist at the top: "Di Pal(mi) 2. e 2 o/2. in Circa 1702. Per il Sig. Fran(ces)co Brontino Bergamo".
Frame: Framed.
Provenance:
Christie's auction, London, 14 December 1984, lot 421.

Literature:
M. Newcome Schleier, Genoese Drawings. Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Copenhagen 2004, p. 19, ill. 13.

We are grateful to Simonetta Prosperi Valenti, Rome, for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of a high-resolution digital photograph and her help in cataloguing it.