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Description: Laid down. Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink: Tassi

Provenance: C.G. Tessin (Cat.1785, no. 102) ; Hessenstein ; Einar Perman

Exhibitions: Washington-Fort Worth-San Francisco 1985-1986, no. 21

Tassi´s chief claim to fame is as the first master of Claude Lorrain. His career as an artist started in 1595, when he left Rome for an apprenticeship in Florence, probably with Giulio Parigi. At the turn of the century, however, he served a sentence for some unknown crime in the Tuscan galleys, which later provided one of the most frequent motifs in his art.

In Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, there is a drawing very close to this sheet both as subject and through an inscription in the same hand at lower right: "Tassi.."
The additional inscription "ARSENAL DE LIVOURNE" indicates that the Oslo drawing was executed in 1609. Chiarini thus makes it a key work for separating Tassi´s style from that of his teacher Filippo Napoletano.

He connects the Oslo drawing with a sheet in Munich, dated 1609, and adds two sheets in École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, formerly attributed to Filippo Napoletano. A drawing with ships in the Louvre obviously belongs to the same group.

Tassi returned to the theme in two sets of frescos, one in Palazzo Odeschalchi ai SS. Apostoli (1623-28), the other in Palazzo Doria Pamphili (1635), both in Rome. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 831]

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