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TOMASSO: The More a Thing is Perfect
Circle of Giovanni Bellini
The Circumcision
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April 29, 01:28 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Circle of Giovanni Bellini
The Circumcision
oil on panel
unframed: 70.5 x 111.9 cm.; 27¾ x 44 in.
framed: 91 x 129.7 cm.; 35⅞ x 51⅛ in.
Giovanni Bellini's prototype for this composition is now lost. It was long thought to be the version now in the National Gallery, London (inv. no. NG1455),1 however this is also now considered to be a workshop production.2 In the present painting a landscape is included in the background.
1 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/workshop-of-giovanni-bellini-the-circumcision
2 See N. Penny, The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings. National Gallery Catalogues, London 2004, p. 119, fig. 13.