European & British Art
European & British Art
Property from a Private Distinguished Collection
Vittorio Matteo Corcos
Portrait of Madame L Cappiello
Lot Closed
December 15, 05:13 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Distinguished Collection
Vittorio Matteo Corcos
Italian
1859 - 1933
Portrait of Madame L Cappiello
signed, dated and dedicated à Mme LCappiello / V.Corcos / 17-X-1909 upper right
oil on board; with a sketch of a girl in an interior on the reverse
Unframed: 54 by 61.5cm., 21¼ by 24¼in.
Framed: 80 by 87cm., 31½ by 34¼in.
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 6 March 2008, lot 224
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Madame L. Cappiello, born Suzanne Meyer, was the wife of the graphic artist Leonetto Cappiello. Both Corcos and Cappiello were born in Leghorn, but Cappiello was a resident in Paris from 1898. Corcos had been in Paris from 1880 to 1885 and though there is no direct evidence of further stays, he travelled abroad in the first decade of the century: Berlin in 1904 and Lisbon in 1905. Therfore it is likely that he executed this intimate portrait of Cappiello’s wife on a trip to Paris in October 1909.