Abate Giustiniani
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, 29.3 x 20.6 cm

Inscribed verso: "M. L’Abbé Giustiniani”"

Provenance:     Richard Neville Neville (1717-1793)
                           The Rt. Hon. Lord Braybrooke, his sale London, Sotheby's 10 December 1979.
Publication : Caricature drawings by Pier Leone Ghezzi". The property of Lord Braybrooke. London, 1979.      La Tentazione Comica, Tre secoli di satira e caricatura tra le Marche e Roma", Fabio  Santilli, 2006, p.87, ill

Framed, with anti UV glass

From an album acquired in Paris in 1763 by Richard Neville Neville,  Secretary to the Embassy in Paris, and active in the the treaty of peace with France in 1763. Then passed on to his son, 2nd Baron Braybrooke, remained in the family until 1979, when sold by Sotheby’s. The present drawing was foglio 38 of volume 2. The person represented is probably a Venetian, he was “Maestro di Camera” to Cardinal Alessandro Albani, Mons. Angelo Giustiniani (1713-1796).