Massacre of the Innocents (recto) | The Calling of the Two First Apostles (verso)

Vincenzo Camuccini

(Roma 1771 - Roma 1844)

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white lead elevations over traces of black pencil (recto) | Black pencil (verso)
220 mm x 336 mm

There are no references to the recto of the Massacre of the Innocents in either painting or drawing. Another pen version of the drawing on the verso is known, belonging to volume 39 no. 23, owned by the Camuccini heirs and published in the 1978 exhibition catalogue (1).

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1. Gianna Piantoni De Angelis, Camuccini 1771-1844, Roma 1978, fig. e scheda n. 176, pag. 82-83, illustrato

Massacre of the Innocents (recto) | The Calling of the Two First Apostles (verso)

Vincenzo Camuccini

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