Lot n° 50
Estimation :
1300 - 2000
EUR
CANTI GIOVANNI (Attributed to) - Lot 50
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 cm - 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 refers to the presence of a larger portrait of Giovanni Canti in an eighteenth-century inventory of the gallery of Villa Strozzi, near Gonzaga (Mantua province), in an eighteenth-century inventory.
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