Mauro TESI
1730 - 1766
Project for a Monstrance
Pen and brown ink, grey wash, yellow watercolour, on a black chalk sketch; composition surrounded by a double black line
412 × 203 mm; mount 463 × 251 mm
Inscription on the mount, pen and brown ink, Mauro Tesi inventione e disegno, and on the reverse, L4— ; paper strips added in the middle part
Provenance: Prince Heinrich von Hessen (1927 – 1999), his stamp (Lugt 4345); his sale of 1995, July 3rd, London, Sotheby’s, n° 78