Bertolami, from Italy, sells on 17 December 2015 a "Anonymous caravaggesque painting" of Christ healing the sick, estimated at 4,000 to 4,500 Euro.
Either it is a copy with the same dimensions but in a worse condition, or it is the same but deteriorated (badly cleaned?) painting as a work sold in 2001 as a "Bartolomeo Cavarozzi" (1587-1625), an Italian Caravaggist painter. I haven't been able to find out where the work was offered and if it has been sold (and for how much). If someone knows more about it, please let me and the readers know!
Interestingly, the other one was sold as a "Death of Joseph", so even the subject seems to be uncertain (or an attempt has been made to disengage this sale from the previous one?). If it is by Cavarozzi, it should be worth much, much more, even in this state.
UPDATE: sold for 15,000 Euro, more than three times the estimate, as expected!
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