Lot 28
  • 28

Circle of Giovanni Battista Pittoni

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Sacrifice of Polyxena
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Denes de Holesch (1910-1983);
Thence by descent.

Catalogue Note

Giovanni Battista Pittoni painted the Sacrifice of Polyxena in at least three variations.  This canvas follows the composition of a painting now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (inv. no. 72.PA.18, see F. Zava Boccazzi, Pittoni, Venice 1979, cat. no. 101, reproduced fig. 261), of which there are four known autograph versions.