Rome, the Spanish Steps: a woman and a boy looking at a male dwarf standing at the foot of the steps. Wash drawing by C.L., 180-.

C. L. (Artist active in Rome)

Date:: [180?-?]

Reference:: 652823i

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Description

Assumed to be the dwarf Francesco Ravai, called il Bajocco: see Kragelund, op. cit.

Publication/Creation

[180?-?]

Physical description

1 drawing : ink wash, with white gouache on blue-green paper ; sheet 33.4 x 42.8 cm

Contributors

C. L. (Artist active in Rome)

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References note

William LeFanu, A catalogue of the portraits and other paintings ... in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh 1960, p. 83, no. 249 (another depiction of Il Bajocco)

Tamara Felicitas Hufschmidt and Livio Jannattoni, Antico Caffè Greco: storia, ambienti, collezioni, Roma: Gruppo dei Romanisti, [1993] (cited by Kragelund)

Patrick Kragelund, 'The Bajocco in Copenhagen: by Juel, Fragonard, Vincent or Abildgaard', SMK Artjournal (Statens Museum for Kunst), 2006, 50ff., 105-110

Reference

Wellcome Collection 652823i

Creator/production credits

"C.L." not identified with any of the artists with those initials listed in G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, Munich 1877-1920, vol. 2