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16<br />
École Espagnole<br />
XVII e siècle<br />
Un groupe <strong>de</strong> personnages avec un moine<br />
A Group of Figures with a Monk<br />
Plume et encre brune, lavis brun<br />
Pen and brown ink, brown wash<br />
166 x 111 mm (6 1 /2 x 4 3 /8 in.)<br />
Ce petit groupe <strong>de</strong> personnages, une mère et son enfant, un mendiant et un homme<br />
<strong>de</strong>bout qui semble vêtu d’une robe <strong>de</strong> bure à capuche, peut rappeler l’art napolitain,<br />
autour <strong>de</strong> Ribera ou <strong>de</strong> plus petits maîtres comme Giovanni Battista Spinelli. Mais il<br />
semble plus probable que ce <strong>de</strong>ssin soit d’une main espagnole. La graphie rappelle<br />
particulièrement certains artistes comme Pedro Orrente ou encore Esteban et Miguel<br />
March, tous <strong>de</strong>ux très proches <strong>de</strong>s peintres napolitains. On retrouve dans leurs <strong>de</strong>ssins<br />
cette façon un peu brutale <strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>ssiner, qui mélange lavis et hachures 1 .<br />
This small group of figures – a mother with her child, a beggar, and a standing man<br />
who seems to be wearing a hoo<strong>de</strong>d monk’s robe – may evoke the Neapolitan art<br />
in the circle of Ribera or smaller masters like Giovanni Battista Spinelli. However this<br />
drawing is more likely to have been performed by a Spanish painter. Its graphic style<br />
is particularly reminiscent of artists like Pedro Orrente or Esteban and Miguel March,<br />
both very close to Neapolitan painters. In their sheets we can find this rather brutal<br />
drawing technique that combines wash with hatching 1 .<br />
1 Diego Angulo, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, A corpus of Spanish Drawings, Valencia 1600-1700,<br />
London, Harvey Miller, 1988.<br />
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