Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

Follower of Bartolomeo Schedoni, 18th Century

Cupid with a vase; Cupid musing

Lot Closed

March 23, 03:35 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Connecticut Collection

Follower of Bartolomeo Schedoni, 18th Century

Cupid with a vase;

Cupid musing

each canvas: 15 ½ by 12 ⅞ in.; 39.4 by 32.7 cm.

each framed: 21 ½ by 18 ½ in.; 54.6 by 47 cm.

Both canvases are lined. Craquelure is visible throughout. Minor accretion in the surfaces. The former: Inspection under UV reveals very few and scattered pindots of retouching to the sky. Some minor visible discoloring is in the shoulder of cupid. A few retouches in the edges also fluoresce. The latter: Inspection under UV reveals two spots of inpainting in the rock at left: the first is at center left; the second is at left of the bottom of the vase. Very few pindots of retouching scattered close to the edges.

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Anonymous sale ('Property from an East Coast Educational Institution'), New York, Christie's, 20 October 1988, lots 51 and 52 (where sold separately, each as School of Bartolomeo Schedoni);
There acquired by a private collector, Bedford, Connecticut;
From whom acquired, July 2010.

The putto holding a vase is a quote from the lower right corner of a painting of the Magdalene by Schedoni in a private collection, London.¹ The image of the reclining Cupid repeats the composition of a painting by Schedoni in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.²

1. E. Negro and N. Roio, Bartolomeo Schedoni 1578-1615, 2000, p. 81, cat. no. 25, reproduced in color p. 56.

2. ibid., pp. 94-95, reproduced.