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Description:  King David Playing a Harp. Laid down. Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower left: Jerome Ferabosco Venetien, bon peintre pd l'histoire et pd portrait, ce dessein est executé a la porte a gauge de S. Jean de Latran. Boschini fol 505. Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 1263 (Sparre) and 1.

David is portrayed in an architectonic frame, the position of which on the paper indicates that the drawing has been cut. The inscription is highly informative as it links the drawing with a painting known to the writer in the monastery church of San Giovanni Laterano, which lay in the Castello quarter of Venice. This information has still to be verified - the building no longer exists and the painting is not mentioned in Marco Boschini's Descrizione di tutte le publiche pitture della Città di Venezia. the note "Boschini fol. 505" refers to La Carta del navegar pitoresco, Venice 1660, hich deals with Forabosco at length on page 505.
Drawings by Forabosco are extremely rare. We know of one in the Uffizi and one in the Zattera collection, Venice. The former, Portrait of a woman standing, has much in common with the style of our sheet. It has been connected by Muraro with the figures in the painting A family rescued from shipwreck in the Assunta church, Malamocco, dated around 1670. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 133]

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