Lot 609
  • 609

Follower of Giovanni Battista Moroni

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Giovanni Battista Moroni
  • Portrait of a man, said to be Jacopo Foscarini, Podestà of Padua (1523-1603)
  • oil on canvas, unframed
  • 18 3/4 by 14 5/8 in.; 47.6 by 37.1 cm.

Provenance

August Liebmann Mayer;
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR),  inv. A.L.M. 2, and transferred from the Jeu de Paume to Buxheim, on 20 October 1942, as by Giacomo Bassano;
Repatriated to France, on 28 December 1942;
Deposited at the Louvre (MNR inv. 801), as by after Moroni;
Returned to the heirs of August Liebmann Mayer.

Condition

Oil on canvas, with an old lining, not framed. The surface is covered in a thick shiny varnish. The work is somewhat flattened from this old lining and thin in areas, especially the subjects red cloak. Under UV light, the thick varnish fluoresces green and obscures the majority of the work. There is one small spot of florescence in the center of the subjects dark coat.
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Catalogue Note

This composition is related to a large scale (105 by 83.5 cm.) portrait by the Bergamesque painter Giovanni Battista Moroni in the collection of the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. 

The Budapest painting is probably a portrait of Jacopo Foscarini, who was Podestà of Padua, and whose family was one of the most noble in the city of Venice. It is likely that the Budapest picture was that hanging in the family palazzo in the quarter of San Felice in Venice as “un Ritrato [sic] con Nobile in habito rosso, Moron… in Portico [a Portrait of a Nobleman dressed in red [by] Moroni, [shown] in a portico]” according to an inventory dated 29 September 1680.