Lot 117
  • 117

Attributed to Karl Pavlovich Briullov

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Karl Pavlovich Briullov
  • Study for The Return of Pope Pius IX to Rome in 1850
  • inscribed Briulow Karl Pavlovicht, Roma - St Paolo 1849 on the stretcher
  • oil and pencil on canvas
  • 61 by 74cm, 24 by 29in.

Provenance

Inherited by the present owner

Condition

Original canvas. There is a layer of light surface dirt and fine lines of craquelure throughout. There are a few flecks of paint loss to the right edge. UV light reveals some retouching to the kneeling figure on the right and in a few places elsewhere. Held in a gold painted plaster frame behnid glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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