Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
Cupid with a vase; Cupid musing
Lot Closed
March 23, 03:35 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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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.
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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.