Pen and brown ink. Inscribed in pencil by a modern hand Amore e Imeneo at the lower center, and Andrea Appiani / 245-180 at the lower right on the recto. 248 x 180 mm.
PROVENANCE:
Bernasconi collection, Milan; Christie’s, Rome, October, 1970, lot 95.
The present drawing connects with a lost painting of the same subject mentioned in Giuseppe Beretta’s book Le opere di Andrea Appiani, and dated by the author between 1807 and 1810. This indicates that our study was executed during the last phase of Appiani’s career, when he worked on the frescoes of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, having at that time taken on the great responsibilities involved in being superintendent of the entire decorative project. Beretta tells us that in these years Appiani created a series of paintings on mythological subjects: The Toilet of Venus, Juno attended by the Graces, Venus and Juno, Sleeping Jove wounded by Cupid, Juno in Jove’s Arms, and Hymen and Cupid. ( See G. Beretta, Le Opere di Andrea Appiani, Milan, 1848, pp. 263-264.
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