Lot 85
  • 85

Attributed to Ippolito Caffi

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Ippolito Caffi
  • Moonlight view of the Piazzetta, Venice
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sestieri, Rome;
From whom acquired by Joseph McCrindle in the 1960s.

Condition

Unlined. there is excellent retention of the paint surface with lovely detail throughout. ultraviolet light shows only a small area of retouching at lower and upper left corners. In a carved and gilt wood frame with numerous small nicks and losses to the gilding.
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