Some Caracciolo Drawings in Stockholm

* I should like to express my gratitude to Mr. Ulf Johnsson of the National Museum in Stockholm for patient assistance in the preparation of this article, and the American Philosophical Society for a subsidy indispensable to its completion.

Abstract

The corpus of known drawings by Giovanni Battista Caracciolo called Battistello, until now consisting of only a handful,¹ has been vastly increased by the discovery of twenty-five unpublished drawings in the National Museum in Stockholm.² Twenty-three seem to be unquestionably by Caracciolo or his shop; the other two may also be by his hand. Seven of the drawings have been attributed to him previously, most of them in the 1863 inventory;³ the eighteen others, all mounted in a portfolio of the zweiter garniture, apparently have never before been recognized as his.⁴