Among the few known drawings from the preparatory phase of the painting Count Ugolino in prison, this page documents a compositional idea stylistically mid-way between the enduring neoclassical taste and the first signs of the romantic style that can be appreciated in the painting transmitted by Belliard’s lithograph made for Count Guido Antonio della Gherardesca.

Excerpt of the expertise by prof. Carlo Sisi in the catalogue of the exhibition “Fascination and elegance in Neoclassical Arts”, 2022.