Lot 709
  • 709

Attributed to Niccolò Cassana

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Niccolò Cassana
  • Self-Portrait
  • oil on panel, tondo
  • sight 3 in.
  • 7.6 cm

Condition

The work is in good condition, Slight surface scratch at lower left, yellowing to varnish. Some scattered paint loss in teh upper left quadrant UNDER UV: A few areas of inpainting at the upper left hand corner and a few on the torso of the man. Opaque varnish blocks full extent of inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This painting is a small version, in circular format, of the Self-Portrait by Cassana which hangs in the Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi, Florence (oil on canvas, 74.5 by 59 cm.; inv. 1890: no. 1712).