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Lot 1234

Attributed to Bernardo Strozzi

Estimate: $22,000 - $24,000

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(Italian, 1581–1644)

Study of an Older Man, for Predica Del Battista, 1644, held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, oil on canvas, 20 x 16-3/8 in.; late 16th/early 17th century Italian carved and gilt wood reverse cassetta frame, frieze with carved cauliculi and imbricated leaves, 32-3/4 x 28-1/2 in.

Note: A note from William Reinhold Valentiner, first Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, accompanies lot and states the attribution.

Exhibited: North Carolina Museum of Art (State Art Gallery), Raleigh, North Carolina, Paintings from North Carolina Collections, October 3-24, 1954; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Collects: a loan exhibition of North Carolina owned art objects, October 10-29, 1967, No.125

, Provenance: Robert Lee Humber; Lucie Bertier Humber, Paris, France/Greenville, North Carolina; by descent in family

Condition

lined with linen and restretched on new stretcher, crackle, some limited flattening, retouch evident primarily in background, course weave linen ground; frame possibly remade from a larger frame and resurfaced, with repairs and repainting, sight edge a modern addition, flaking