Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms; 1639-1709; Pen and brown ink; brush and brown wash; highlighted with white; over black chalk; on rose-washed paper; 7-13/16 x 5-5/16 in. (19.9 x 13.5 cm); Drawings; Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian; Genoa 1639-1709 Rome); Once owned by the distinguished French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774); this highly finished drawing appears in the 1775-76 sale catalogue of his collection. It has been identified as preparatory for the frontispiece of 'Il Corradino;' a libretto for a tragedy set in medieval Naples; written by Antonio Caraccio (1630-1702); and published in Rome in 1694