- 77
* Luca Giordano, called Fa Presto Naples 1634 - 1705
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Description
- Luca Giordano, called Fa Presto
- Venus and Mars
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Violetta dei Mazia, Pennsylvania;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 14, 1994, lot 40;
There purchased by the present collector.
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 14, 1994, lot 40;
There purchased by the present collector.
Catalogue Note
Another version of this composition by Giordano, datable to circa 1670, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; a reduced version (45 by 55 cm.) is in a private collection, Florence (see O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples 1992, vol. I, p. 290, cat. nos. A237 and A238, reproduced, vol. II, figs. 313 and 314).