Lot 151
  • 151

Filippo Lauri

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Filippo Lauri
  • A Bacchanal, with offerings strewn around a statue of Pan
  • signed and dated lower left on the plinth: Filippo Lauro. F. 1645
  • oil on canvas
  • 17 by 27 3/4 in.
  • 43.5 x 70.5 cm.

Provenance

Private collector, France;
By whom sold, Paris, Sotheby's, 19 June 2007, lot 8;
With Galerie Bernheimer, Munich.

Condition

The canvas has been relined. The paint surface is clean. To the naked eye there is some discoloured retouching to the foliage and to the central figure’s purple drapery. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a thin and even layer of varnish plus some further subtle scattered retouching throughout the painting, particularly to the tree at the right hand margin and to the foreground on the left. Overall the painting is in very good condition. Offered in a carved and gilt wood frame with embossed decorative pattern in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Lauri painted both large-scale decorative works and small cabinet pictures. He trained first with his Flemish father, Balthasar Lauwers (1578–1645), whose name was Italianised as Lauri, and went on to study under Angelo Caroselli and Pietro da Cortona. Signed and dated paintings by Lauri, such as the present canvas, are rare. This painting is an early example of the artist's work in small format, setting the tone for his other idyllic cabinet paintings which came to anticipate the art of the 18th century.