Heart of the sale appointment on 28, 29 and 30 March it's also the Old Master Painting selection, which is transformed into an ideal close encounter with great Italian and international masters,
starting with religious subjects painted at the turn of the 15th to 16th century and ending with the romantic settings typical of the late 18th century. It is difficult not to be enraptured by the brightness of the panel painting on a gold background by a German Master from the end of the 15th century, with its original iconography of Nordic taste depicting the “Visitation” (lot 145, € 9,000 - 10,000) and not to be enraptured by the tenderness of the “Madonna and Child with St. John” by the Florentine Santi di Tito (lot 153, € 35,000 - 40,000).
Lot 145
German master of the late 15th century
Visitation. Oil on panel with gold background, 68.5x50.7 cm.
Estimate € 9,000 - 10,000
Lot 153 Santi di Tito (Sansepolcro, 1536 - Florence, 1603)
Madonna with Child and St John the Baptist. Oil on panel, 78x56 cm.
Sealing wax stamp and fire inscription on the reverse.
Estimate € 35,000 - 40,000
In the section on late 17th century painting, Alessandro Gherardini's powerful and majestic “Parnaso” (lot 148, € 10,000 - 12,000) stands out. In its swirling motion of figures and brilliant chromatism, this work confirms itself as the “true heir of Luca Giordano in Florence”.
Lot 148
Alessandro Gherardini (Florence, 1655 - Livorno, 1723)
Parnassus. Oil on canvas, 264x128.5 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 10,000 - 12,000
Fascinating and curious testimony of the customs of the time, late Baroque portraiture offers two excellent works by the most sought-after portrait painter in 17th century Rome, Jacob-Ferdinand Voet, both belonging to the “Belle Series” of the Odescalchi Collection, which immortalise respectively “Clelia Cesarini Colonna” (lot 150, € 9,000 - 10,000) and “Ortensia Mancini” (lot 151, € 9,000 - 10,000).
Lot 150
Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp, 1639 - Paris, 1689)
Portrait of Clelia Cesarini Colonna, princess of Sonnino.
Oil on oval canvas, 80x65 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 9,000 - 10,000
Lot 151
Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp, 1639 - Paris, 1689)
Portrait of Ortensia Mancini.
Oil on oval canvas, 80x65 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 9,000 - 10,000
In the section dedicated to the eighteenth century, starting from Emilia, the perspective virtuosity of the two “Capricci architettonici” by the “Mirandolese” (lots 113-114, € 7,500 - 8,000) and the archaizing classicism typical of the views by the Bolognese Francesco L'Ange present with the work “Frati certosini in un paesaggio” (lot 119, € 4,500 - 5,000).
Crossing national borders, the 18th century proposal culminates in the romantic depiction of Roman ruins that characterises the vibrant “Landscape with Washerwomen by a Bridge” by Hubert Robert (lot 155, € 35,000 - 40,000), acknowledged as a master of the genre to such an extent that he earned the nickname “Robert de ruines”.
Lot 113
Pietro Paltronieri, detto "Il Mirandolese" (Mirandola, 1673 - Bologna, 1741 ) (attr.)
Architectural Capriccio with Gothic Ruins and Figures.
Tempera on canvas, 53.6x46 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 7,500 - 8,000
Lot 119
Francesco L'Ange (1675 - 1757)
Carthusian friars in a landscape.
Oil on canvas, 41x60 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 4,500 - 5,000
Lot 155
Hubert Robert (Paris, 1733 - Paris, 1808)
Landscape with Washerwomen at a Bridge.
Oil on canvas, 51x116 cm. Framed.
Estimate € 35,000 - 40,000