Filippo Lauri

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

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Description

Filippo Lauri
Vulcan at his forge, behind him a bas-relief of Hercules fighting the Hydra
oil on canvas

Provenance

Dr Bragge, 1774 (according to an inscrption to the reverse of the canvas).

Catalogue Note

Robert Bragge was a collector and dealer who purchased many works from Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome. His portrait was drawn by Pier Leone Ghezzi and subsequently engraved by Artur Pond. The work was part of a series painted circa 1671. Another work from the series, a Personification of Architecture, was formerly in the Marshall collection and was sold London, Christie's South Kensington, 24 April 2001, lot 115 for £13,000.