Giovanni BETTATI
Vers 1700 - 1777
Project for a Papal Ferula
On the reverse, eleven sketches of grotesques and other details
Pen and brown ink on a black chalk skecth
427 × 205 mm
Provenance: 1966 Sale, November 1-4th, Berlin, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Auktion 8, n° 787 as Mauro Tesi; L.A. Houthakker (1926 – 2008), his stamp (Lugt 3893); 2011 sale, May 27, Berlin, Bassenge, Auktion 97, n° 6288
Bibliography: Fuhring 1989, vol. I, n° 538 (attributed to Gagliardi); Fuhring 1991 (as Giovanni Bettati)