Lot 155
  • 155

Follower of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
  • Venus sleeping in a landscape with two doves in the foreground
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

The Kings of Wurttemberg;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 March 1964, lot 163, as "Albani", for 480 gns. to Norbury;
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Condition

The canvas has been relined. There is an old seam 42 cm from the upper edge. THe painting is dirty and the varnish discoloured. Overall the paint surface is in good condition with only minor scattered old restorations and strengthenings, mostly along the seam. Offered in a carved and gilt wood frame in fairly good condition.
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