Lot 21
  • 21

ROSALBA CARRIERA | Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lucrezia Mocenigo

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rosalba Carriera
  • Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lucrezia Mocenigo
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame;inscribed on the reverse in a later hand: La Procuratessa / Lucretia Mocenigo / Della Casa Basadonna / A Venetia anno 1707
  • 68 by 51 mm.

Provenance

With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1986

Condition

Essentially good. There is some minor paint loss and re-touching in the blue of the dress between 4 and 6 o'clock. There is some surface irregularity in the background around the border.
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