sht. 23

A

Luigi Valadier, Polylobate silver and silver gilt frame with a garland of flowers and cherubs in the volutes, c. 1770-5, graphite, pen, grey ink, brown, yellow and grey wash on paper, 265 x 205 mm.

Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 84.

B

Workshop of Luigi Valadier, Ormolu frame with two rows of beading, an oak garland, an ornamental motif of a knotted ribbon at the top and the variant of lapis lazuli or Egyptian rosso antico marble (or porphyry) panels on the inner corners, c. 1770-5, graphite, pen, grey ink, grey, brown, blue and red wash on paper, 255 x 200 mm.

A frame in ormolu, silver and lapis lazuli by Luigi Valadier now in the Art Institute of Chicago shows a remarkable similarity with this drawing (Honour 1971, pp. 208-210; Wardropper 2000, pp. 79-84; González-Palacios 2018, pp. 328-329).

Bibliography: González-Palacios 2018, p. 329, fig. 7_33; Leone 2019a, p. 84.

C

Luigi Valadier (?), Ormolu frame with variants of the decorations and the materials in the panels; the cymatium consists of a grotesque motif from which there emerges a winged putto supporting the papal tiara swathed in the rays of the Holy Ghost, c. 1775, graphite, pen, brown ink, brown, green and various shades of yellow wash on paper, 260 x 165 mm.

Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 84.

D

Luigi Valadier, Silver and silver gilt or ormolu frame or holy water stoup; at the top, a cherub and an ornamental motif of a knotted ribbon, c. 1765-70, graphite, pen, brown ink, grey and brown wash on paper, 270 x 160 mm.

Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 84.