Description: Inscribed in pen and brown ink below on the old mount: Jean baptiste Caccioli Elleue du Canuti. mort en 1675 (Tessin's hand). Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right: 7 and 1116 (Sparre)

In 1967, Ebria Feinblatt succeeded in identifying Giovanni Battista Caccioli as the author of the ceiling fresco in the "sala" of the Casa Mentasti near S. Martino in Bologna. Feinblatt had previously published a study for the fresco as a preparatory study by Domenico Maria Canuti for the artist's ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Altieri in Rome. The discovery of the ceiling enabled her to identify the Uffizi drawing as the work of this previously unknown draughtsman. Our drawing is the only other drawing attributed to Caccioli known to Feinblatt. She accepts the attribution although it has little in common with the study for the ceiling apart from a common debt to the work of Canuti, Caccioli's master [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1320]

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