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Lot 204
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Vincenzo Martinelli

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vincenzo Martinelli
  • A floral garland surrounding a river landscape
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

The Sumner Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, acc. no. 1953.128;
By whom de-accessioned, New York, Christie's, 12 January 1996, lot 151 (as Vincenzo Martinelli);
Acquired by the parents of the present owners in 1997.

Exhibited

Westport, CT, Westport Community Art Association, Still Life, 22 May - 7 June 1958.

Literature

Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings, Catalogue I. The Netherlands and German-Speaking Countries. 15th-19th Centuries, 1978, pp. 197-8, no. 162, reproduced plate 45 (as Attributed to Gaspar Verbrugghen II).

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Prof. Emilio Negro for tentatively endorsing the attribution of the landscape to Vincenzo Martinelli on the basis of photographs. The artist responsible for the garland of flowers remains unidentified. For some reproductions of other landscapes by Martinelli see R. Roli, Pittura Bolognese 1650-1800, Bologna 1977, plates 374a-379b.