A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture We know its actual date

We know its actual date

This piece has just the right amount of foxing and character whilst also remaining eminently useful to be just the ticket for hall

They have recently been re-caned and as such can be used and enjoyed but wouldn’t take to being used heavily

Nottingham

and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards humanity

A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture We know its actual dateOrigin: Italian School Period: Neoclassical Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1797 The Study: 20. 5 high x 14. 25 wide The Whole in Frame: 27. 25 high x 20. 5 wide The well executed study of Ganymede, the Trojan youth, shown in profile at shoulder length, deftly worked in charcoals, surviving from the embers of the eighteenth century and signed lower right thus; Eugenia W. Naples May 1797; now presented in a good burr maple frame to a charcoal inset