Old Masters Day Auction

Old Masters Day Auction

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The Property of a Gentleman

Francesco Furini

Lady with a tambourine, the Muse Erato

Lot Closed

July 7, 02:21 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Gentleman


Francesco Furini

Florence 1604 - 1646

Lady with a tambourine, the Muse Erato


oil on canvas

unframed: 72.7 x 60.2 cm.; 28⅝ x 23¾ in.

framed: 89.1 x 76.8 cm.; 35⅛ x 30¼ in.

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 8 December 2004, lot 99 (for £85,850);
With Adam Williams, New York, and Verner Amell, Stockholm and London (by whom exhibited at TEFAF, Maastricht);
From whom acquired by the father of the present owner.

G. Cantelli, Francesco Furini e I Furiniani, Florence 2010, p. 49, reproduced fig. 36 (as Simone Pignoni).

We are grateful to Dott.ssa Francesca Baldassari for endorsing the attribution to Furini on the basis of a digital image.