Remigio Cantagallina

Remigio Cantagallina (Sansepolcro, 1582 - Florence, 1656) View of Pesaro Pen and brown ink on ink paper with watermark of crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star (similar to Briquet 6299, this paper was known to be in use in Rome between 1527 and 1566), outer border with two lines in the same color as the brown ink, laid down on laid paper at a later date, with additional double framing lines in brown ink, 14.6 x 21.8 cm. Provenance: Probably from an album of 105 drawings of Tuscan views, mostly by Cantagallina, inscribed 'Vedute di Toscana d'Jacopo Ligozzi' (Views of Tuscany by Jacopo Ligozzi); London, Sotheby's, June 25, 1866, lot 954 ("A portfolio with sheets, containing 105 pen and sepia drawings, Views in Tuscany, by Jacopo Ligozzi'); London, Hodgson's, November 26, 1954, lot 596 ("Original drawings in sepia and washes of scenery, antiquities, buildings, etc. of Tuscany by Jacopo Ligozzi, Remigio Cantagallina and others"); Hans M. Calmann (1899-1982), London; Private collection, Herefordshire, UK. The present work is accompanied by a sheet of paper (used to protect the drawing) with a presentation inscription in pencil written by the owner: 'With all good wishes for Christmas and a Happy New Year from Hans & Gerta Calmann. I heard you like Pesaro". Hans Calmann, a stockbroker by profession, was born in Hamburg, but was forced to leave Nazi Germany for England in March 1937. In 1941 he opened a gallery on Davies Street, London, before moving to Bruton Place in 1963, where he remained until his retirement in 1973. The drawings were dispersed in subsequent years, some examples are now preserved in the Frits Lugt Collection, the Ashmolean Museum, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art. Visit our gallery website