sht. 20
Luigi Valadier Giuseppe Valadier
B 1780 - 1785
B 360 x 250 mm
A
Luigi Valadier, Silver oil lamp with circular grooved base, stem in the shape of a Doric column, labrum with lions’ heads for the lamps, grooved vase at the top, c. 1780, graphite, pen, brown ink, brown wash on paper, 335 x 235 mm.; inscription in pen bottom left: “Alta palmi due in tutto / Peserà libre sette e mezza / Importerà di fattura scudi trentacinque”.
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 84; Leone 2019b, p. 79.
B
Giuseppe Valadier, Table clock in the shape of a stepped temple with mixtilinear base and central body with Corinthian pilasters; on the crown, the chariot of Apollo with the muses surrounded by sphinxes in the lower registers; beneath the clock face, Apollo Citharede, 1780-5, graphite, grey and yellow wash on paper, 360 x 250 mm.; numbered upper left: “21”.
This is the same model, with a few variants, as that illustrated in Drawing E on sht. 8.
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 84.
