Master to Master: The Nelson Shanks Collection
Master to Master: The Nelson Shanks Collection
Attributed to Annibale Carracci
Portrait of a man, bust-length, in a ruff
Auction Closed
January 27, 08:24 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Annibale Carracci
Bologna 1560 - 1609 Rome
Portrait of a man, bust-length, in a ruff
oil on canvas
canvas: 17 by 14 1/8 in.; 43.2 by 35.9 cm.
framed: 25 1/4 by 22 3/8 in; 64.1 by 56.8 cm.
Marquis de Cuevas;
With Mortimer Brandt, by 1973 until at least 1986;
Anonymous sale, Towson, MD, Alex Copper Auctioneers, 18-19 May 2003, lot 373 (as Spanish School, 17th Century and revised to Italian School, possibly Annibale Carracci);
There acquired.
With Mortimer Brandt, by 1973 until at least 1986;
Anonymous sale, Towson, MD, Alex Copper Auctioneers, 18-19 May 2003, lot 373 (as Spanish School, 17th Century and revised to Italian School, possibly Annibale Carracci);
There acquired.
D. Benati and E. Riccòmini, Annibale Carracci, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2006, p. 118, under cat. no. II.13 (as of problematic authorship);
D. Benati, "Sull’idea del ‘vero’ in Annibale Carracci," in Les Carracci, l'autre voie de la modernité, Art Italies: Le Bulletin de l'association des historiens de l'art italien, no. 22, 2016, published papers of a study day held at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art on 27 October 2014, pp. 10-12, reproduced fig. 7 (as Annibale Carracci, circa 1588).
D. Benati, "Sull’idea del ‘vero’ in Annibale Carracci," in Les Carracci, l'autre voie de la modernité, Art Italies: Le Bulletin de l'association des historiens de l'art italien, no. 22, 2016, published papers of a study day held at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art on 27 October 2014, pp. 10-12, reproduced fig. 7 (as Annibale Carracci, circa 1588).