Description: Curia, perhaps the most important Neapolitan artist of his generation, can be traced as having worked in his father's studio 1588-94. There is reason to believe that the first twenty-three items presented here [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 878-900] represent an early manner from these and the immediately succeeding years. Many of these sheets already display the violet ink and wash, that is a characteristic of Curia's drawings. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 878]

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