Lot n° 77
Estimation :
1500 - 2500
EUR
CANTI GIOVANNI (Attributed to) - Lot 77
CANTI GIOVANNI (Attributed to)
Parma 1653- Mantua 1710
Portrait of a man in a brown jacket and white scarf (Auto - portrait?)
Oil on canvas (Rentoilage; restorations; old dirty varnish)
On the reverse side an inscription probably copied during the re-covering: GIO. CANTI / PITTORE / PARMIGIANO / MORTO LI 4 Luglio / 1716 SEPOLTO / IN MANTOVA / IN S.AMBROGIO
H.50 - W. 40 cm.
Provenance: Former private collection from Florence.
Bibliography: Mantova nel Settecento, n° 158 p. 144 (reproduced), notice
by Donatella Martelli (1983).
The author mentions the presence of a larger Giovanni Canti portrait car in an eighteenth-century inventory of the gallery of Villa Strozzi, near Gonzaga (province of Mantua).
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