Kneeling Shepherd

Lionello Spada

(Bologna 1576 – Parma 1622)

Red chalk on brownish paper
312mm × 214mm
Inscriptions: on recto and verso, in ancient handwriting, ‘Lionello Spada’.

Edited by Luca Giunta Baroni — March 2022

According to an oral communication, the sheet comes from the important collection of drawings amassed by the Bolognese painter Francesco Giusti (1752-1829). An ancient inscription on the reverse and on the mount refers to the Emilian artist Lionello Spada, widely represented in the Giusti collection.

Literature Show/Hide

Collezione di disegni e cartoni posseduti dal fu Francesco Giusti in Bologna, Bologna, 1864; Elio Monducci, Leonello Spada, Reggio Emilia 2002; Antonio Buitoni, Domenico Cerami, Francesco Giusti (1752-1829) pittore e collezionista, “Strenna Storica Bolognese”, 66, 2016, pp. 27-70

Provenance Show/Hide

Bologna, coll. Francesco Giusti (1752-1829) (secondo comunicazione orale); Londra, Sotheby’s, 7.7.1999, p. 85, n. 102, illustrato; Breno, coll. Mario Bertolini (1936-2021).