Lot 27
  • 27

Studio of Pedro Orrente

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pedro Orrente
  • A night scene with shepherds resting by a fire
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Earl of Camperdown;
His sale, London, Christie's, 23 May 1921, as "Spanish School";
With Drey Gallery, London, 1951.

Literature

D. Angulo Iñiguez and A.E. Perez Sánchez, Historia de la Pintura Española: Escuela toledana de la primera mitad del siglo XVII, Madrid 1972, p. 349, under cat. no, 390, reproduced pl. 273, where listed as "Pupil of Orrente".

Catalogue Note

It is likely that this painting is a fragment from an Annunciation to the Shepherds.