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Giuseppe Valadier
B c. 1800
B 385 x 230 mm
A
Giuseppe Valadier, Gold and diamond chalice, 1800, graphite, pen, grey ink, brown wash on paper, 411 x 255 mm.
The drawing relates to a gold and diamond chalice which Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, Duke of York, commissioned from Giuseppe Valadier in 1800. The 130 “diamonds cut in the Dutch style” adorning the chalice had been the property of the cardinal’s mother, Maria Clementina Sobieska and were reworked by Vincenzo Sartori, jeweller to the pope. The chalice, completed in 1801, is now in the Basilica of St. Peter’s Treasury (Valadier 1991, p. 161; Thompson 1991-2).
Bibliography: Leone 2019a, p. 88; Leone 2019b, p. 73; Thompson 1991-2, p. 103, fig. 3.
B
Workshop of Giuseppe Valadier, Gold and silver gilt chalice, c. 1800, graphite, pen, grey ink, brown and reddish wash on paper, 385 x 230 mm.
Bibliography: González-Palacios 2018, p. 351, fig. 7_52; Leone 2019a, p. 88; Valeriani in L’oro di Valadier 1997, p. 154, n. 38.
