MASUCCI. Enthroned Madonna with Child and Two... Lot 292

MASUCCI. Enthroned Madonna with Child and Two Saints. Bucolic scene. Drawings. MASUCCI, Augustine. Enthroned Madonna with Child and Two Saints. Bucolic scene. Drawings. 1691-1758 Sheet of mm. 289x213. Two drawings, front and back, in sanguine. Good conditions. The sacred image is depicted within an oval: the two saints seem to be Saint Anthony and Saint Bartholomew, with their attributes, the lily and the knife. In the pastoral scene, full page, a seated young man and a girl converse in a rural setting: in the foreground, at the boy's feet, a crouched dog. The Roman painter Agostino Masucci, a pupil of Carlo Maratta, was a friend of Filippo Juvarra and Luigi Vanvitelli and obtained important commissions both in Rome and in various Italian and European courts. Especially in the second drawing the Arcadian academicism typical of 18th century Roman painting is expressed.