Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Neapolitan School, 17th century
Portrait of a man in a fur cap
Lot Closed
April 5, 11:49 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Neapolitan School, 17th century
Portrait of a man in a fur cap
oil on canvas
unframed: 43 x 33.9 cm.; 17 x 13⅜ in.
framed: 59.7 x 48 cm.; 23½ x 18⅞ in.
We are grateful to Prof. Nicola Spinosa for tentatively attributing this work to Aniello Falcone from digital images, on the basis of stylistic similarities to a work probably by the artist in the National Museum of Matera.1 The attribution of latter has been the subject of much debate; it has been ascribed in the past to Antonio de Bellis (b. c. 1616; act. Naples c. 1636–57/8), Matthias Stomer (c. 1600–after 1652) and Hendrick de Somer (1602–c. 1655).2
1 Inv. no. CD. 206; oil on canvas; 126 x 153 cm.; https://www.museonazionaledimatera.it/collezione/giacobbe-contempla-la-tunica-insanguinata-del-figlio-giuseppe/
2 For a discussion of this work see N. Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli. Da Caravaggio a Massimo Stanzione, Naples 2010, pp. 243–44, reproduced.