Giovan Gioseffo Dal Sole Lot n° 821

Giovan Gioseffo Dal Sole (Bologna 1654-1719). Apollo and Daphne, with coeval frame. Oil in chiaroscuro on printed paper (applied to canvas). cm39x26. Provenance: Rome, Cenci-Bolognetti Collection. The splendid sketch executed in oil on paper is within the best process and expressive practices of late 17th-century Bologna. The use of monochrome spread from the examples of Simone Cantarini, but it would be above all his pupils and followers, particularly Lorenzo Pasinelli and the latter's students, Donato Creti and Giovan Gioseffo Dal Sole, who would transform this practice into a successful and systematic formula. It is precisely to Dal Sole that the work under consideration should be returned and should be included in that large group of paintings executed in chiaroscuro with brown or gray tones on reused paper, printed in two columns with Latin text. Many of these come from the collection of Baron Koenig-Fachsenfeld and in turn from the collection of the Bolognese painter Francesco Giusti (1752-1828). The painting comes from the noble house of Cenci-Bolognetti, and its commission is undoubtedly due to the Roman branch of the Bolognetti family, in the figures of Paolo and his son Ferdinando, who at the end of the seventeenth century initiated a series of commissions to the best artists of the day to increase the art collection and decorate Roman palaces and the fiefdom of Vicovaro, acquired by the Orsini in 1693. Among the family documents and accounts appears precisely the name of Giovan Gioseffo Dal Sole, confirming the relationship between the family and the painter, especially further confirming the autography of the monochrome discussed here (C.Mazzarelli and F.Mercorelli, Palazzo Cenci Bolognetti al Gesù, Campisano Editore, 2012, p.87)