Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
The Property of a Private Collector
Astolfo Petrazzi
A shepherd playing the cetera
Lot Closed
April 28, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Private Collector
Astolfo Petrazzi
Siena 1580 - 1653
A shepherd playing the cetera
oil on canvas
unframed: 122.2 x 93 cm.; 48¼ x 36⅝ in
framed: 138.5 x 108.5 cm.; 54½ x 42¾ in.
W.R.M. Wynne, Esq., by 20 March 1885 (as Murillo, according to an old hand-written label on the reverse);
Major M. Williams, Penbedw Hall (stenciled on the reverse of the canvas);
Anonymous sale ('Property of a Private Collector'), London, Sotheby's, 11 July 2002, lot 189 (as Domenico Cresti, called Domenico Passignano);
Anonymous sale ('Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Sotheby's, 26–27 January 2006, lot 217 (as Petrazzi);
Where acquired by the present owner.
Major M. Williams, Penbedw Hall (stenciled on the reverse of the canvas);
Anonymous sale ('Property of a Private Collector'), London, Sotheby's, 11 July 2002, lot 189 (as Domenico Cresti, called Domenico Passignano);
Anonymous sale ('Property of a Private Collector'), New York, Sotheby's, 26–27 January 2006, lot 217 (as Petrazzi);
Where acquired by the present owner.
M. Ciampolini, Pittori Senesi del Seicento, Siena 2010, vol. 2, p. 595, reproduced pl. 305 (as Petrazzi).
When the painting was offered at auction in 2006 Alessandro Bagnoli endorsed the attribution to Petrazzi on the basis of photographs.