Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part II

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part II

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Faustino Bocchi

A townscape with an orchestra of dwarfs playing music with masked onlookers

Lot Closed

July 7, 12:15 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Faustino Bocchi

Brescia 1659–1741

A townscape with an orchestra of dwarfs playing music with masked onlookers


oil on canvas

unframed: 44 x 70 cm.; 17⅜ x 27⅝ in.

framed: 53.6 x 80.4 cm.; 21⅛ x 31⅝ in.

Seligsberger collection, Würzburg;

By descent to Mrs Katilie Frenkel-Seligsberger (1864–1942), Aerdenhout and Haarlem;

By descent in a private collection, Rotterdam;

From whom acquired by a member of the same family, Amsterdam, in 1981.