Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
The Property of a Private Collector
Benedetto Caliari
The Finding of Moses
Lot Closed
April 28, 01:16 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Private Collector
Benedetto Caliari
Verona 1538 - 1598 Venice
The Finding of Moses
inscribed with inventory number lower left: 59.
oil on canvas
unframed: 148 x 239.5 cm.; 58¼ x 94¼ in.
framed: 184.9 x 276.8 cm.; 72¾ x 109 in.
Private collection, Germany, circa 1830–40, having been acquired in Southern Europe or Germany;
Thence by descent until anonymously sold (‘Property of a Nobleman’), London, Christie's, 7 July 2017, lot 115, where acquired.
Thence by descent until anonymously sold (‘Property of a Nobleman’), London, Christie's, 7 July 2017, lot 115, where acquired.
J. Jackson, ‘Found again in Melbourne: the 3rd Earl of Bute's 'Finding of Moses'’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 162, no. 1408, July 2020, pp. 582–83, reproduced in colour p. 583, fig. 6.