Lot 258
  • 258

Felice Schiavoni

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Felice Schiavoni
  • "Raphael painting La Fornarina"
  • signed lower right: F Schiavoni . f. 1832
  • oil on panel

Condition

The painting presents a clear and fresh image beneath a clean varnish and is ready to hang in its present state. The panel stable, made of a single board with a very slight vertical bow with two horizontal batons on the reverse. The paint surface is smooth and stable. Inspection under UV some strengthening to the shadows of the female sitter's blue robe and the chest area of the male sitter's black robe and to the tip of his shoe. There are a few fine lines of cosmetic retouching to minor fine cracks in the background here and there and further spots of retouching in the architecture at right. The painting requires no further work and is offered in a carved gilt wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Though traditionally identified as a historicized depiction of Raphael painting beside an easel, the Renaissance portrait depicted within this scene is in fact Sebastiano del Piombo's Portrait of a woman in the Uffizi, Florence. Such confusion in the identification of the painting may have originated from the fact that Sebastiano's picture was long considered to be by Raphael, and was still the prevailing attribution until only a few years before Schiavoni painted this lyrical composition in 1832.

Another version of the composition, dated two years after the present picture, is located in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia.