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Lot 437

Tuscan School Portrait

Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000

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$10,000 $1,000
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(16th century)

Portrait of a Ginger Bearded Nobleman, unsigned, oil on canvas, 38-3/4 x 25-1/2 in. (96.52 x 63-1/2 cm.); carved and gilt wood Italian reverse profile frame, 44-3/8 x 31-1/2 in. Note: This portrait demonstrates the artist may have been in the circle of Giovanni Battista Moroni and perhaps Titian.

Provenance: Sold out of the basement of a Palazzo during the Florence Floods. circa 1960s; Collection of a Virginia Gentleman

Condition

lined, restretched on new stretcher, retouch, voids at bottom, craquelure, crackle; frame with abrasions and wear commensurate with age