A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture We know its actual date

We know its actual date

A spotless museum quality piece with real presence and by probably the greatest ever practitioner in the field

till they came out into another open field

as it dips slightly at the centre back and the whole of lining is in the beautiful canary yellow satin

A Fine Late 18thC Italian School Grand Tour Charcoal Study of Ganymede; Naples; 1797 sub-Art & Sculpture We know its actual dateOrigin: Italian School Period: Neoclassical Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1797 The Study: 20. 5 high x 14. 25 wide The Whole in Frame: 27. 25 high x 20. 5 wide The well executed study of Ganymede, the Trojan youth, shown in profile at shoulder length, deftly worked in charcoals, surviving from the embers of the eighteenth century and signed lower right thus; Eugenia W. Naples May 1797; now presented in a good burr maple frame to a charcoal inset