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Description: Watermark: Fleur-de-lis (close to Heawood 1833: Spain? c. 1758-59).
Signed at lower right in pen and brown ink: "Casanova f." Inscribed in pen and brown ink: "Humano Capiti cervicem Pictor ecquinam jungere si velit,.../ Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici? Horat. de Arti Poet."

Provenance: unknown.

This drawing, which is not like the style of anything else by Casanova, is in the tradition of caricature that was represented in Venice by Marco Ricci and Anton Maria Zanetti. Both normally did their subjects in profile or occasionally full face, seldom in complex scenes such as this. Zanetti, however, has left a few examples of slightly exaggerated figures in a setting, e.g. the pictures of Michele Marieschi and Francesco Fontebasso in the "Album Cini" in Venice. These figures and the portrait of Giuseppe Zanetti in the same volume are so close to the style of this sheet that one is tempted to assume that it is based directly on a drawing by Zanetti.

The picture probably has to do with the politics of art; the figure on the far right could, moreover, be a portrait of Anton Maria Zanetti. The picture on the far left has the inscription, "Miniatura grande al naturale." The bottle held by the man on the left is inscribed "gran virtù dell´Aqua forte". The pedestal under the faun in the background carries the words "Proportioni dall´Antico". The man in he middle is holding an engraver´s tool and the figure on the right a paper inscribed "Dat Veniam Covais [?] exat censur Columbas. Hor." [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 175]

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