Mercury and the Graces
Giuliano Traballesi
(Florence 1727 - Milan 1812)
- Black chalk
- 330 mm x 280 mm
- Lily and Honig writing
The drawing finds comparison with the model owned by the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (1), considered by Bandera Viani to be a sketch for the fresco, now lost, for one of the conversation rooms of the Villa Arciducale in Monza (2). Another version of our composition exists in the graphic collection of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (3), in which the figure of Mercury has been varied so much as to suggest that our sheet is the final project for the composition.
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(1). Museums and Galleries of Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, volume IV, Milan 2008, pp. 270 - 271, no. 1339, illustrated
(2). Bandera Viani Maria Cristina, profile of Giuliano Traballesi, II, in Arte Cristiana, no. 76, 1988, S. 177-196
(3). Exhibition of the Masters of Brera (1776 - 1859) Palazzo della Permanente, Milan 1975, exhibition catalogue, p. 52, no. 15, illustrated on p. 339
