Michelangelo Maestri - Mars in his Chariot - image-1

Lot 1665 Dα

Michelangelo Maestri - Mars in his Chariot

Auction 1209 - overview Cologne
19.11.2022, 11:00 - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture 14th-19th Centuries
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 5.040 € (incl. premium)

Michelangelo Maestri

Mars in his Chariot

Gouache on paper. 37 x 43.8 cm.
Signed lower right: Roma preso Mic.Ang.Maestri
Lower left: Raf:San:Urbino.in.

The works of the Italian artist Michelangelo Maestri - of whom only the year and place of death is known, namely Rome in 1812 - are mainly based on motifs from ancient frescoes discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum and on designs by Raphael or his pupil Giulio Romano. Maestri's meticulously executed gouaches enjoyed great popularity among European travellers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.