Lot 637
  • 637

Follower of Sebastiano del Piombo

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sebastiano del Piombo
  • Portrait of Ferry Carondelet and his Secretaries
  • oil on canvas, unframed
  • 54 by 42 in.; 137 by 106.7 cm.

Provenance

Comm. Carlo Foresti, Milan (until 1929);
Anonymous sale, Kunst-und-Auktionshaus A-G, Zurich, November 25-27, 1931, lot 891, illustrated pl. XXIV (as by Sebastiano del Piombo);
Private Collection, Zurich (1931-1980);  
Private Collection, Massachusetts (thence by descent).

Condition

Canvas is lined (work is ensconced in a liner) SURFACE: in fairly good condition; there are scattered losses from flaking, most of them in the darks of background around master's face and behind him (at left)
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Catalogue Note

The prime version of this composition is in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (oil on panel, 113 by 87 cm., no. inv. 369 (1934.20).