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Felippo Tozelli Italian, 1794 - after 1835
Description
- Felippo Tozelli
- half-length portrait of a young woman in a white blouse and blue scarf
- pastel, possibly on vellum
Provenance
Catharina Gravin van Lynden van Sandenburg-Melvil (1805-1882);
By inheritance to her granddaughter, M.J. Gravin van Lynden van Sandenburg;
purchased from her by Abraham Nijstad in 1946;
Saam and Lily Nijstad, The Hague (Inv.nr. N442)
Catalogue Note
This lot is accompanied by a letter of A.C.A.W. Baron van der Feltz to Mr Nijstad, which confims the attribution to Tozelli and gives the information about the provenance.
The career of this Italian-born pastellist has been described by Baron van der Feltz in his monograph on Tozelli's teacher, Charles Howard Hodges: see A.C.A.W. Baron van der Feltz, Charles Howard Hodges 1764-1837, Assen 1982, pp. 41-5, 346-7, cat. nos. T.13, T.14. The attribution was confirmed by Baron van der Feltz, in a letter of 19 November 1981.