Thursday 1 October 2015

Some unidentified copies

Morel, Saint-Dié, France, sell on 18 October 2015 an "Italian School, 17th century" Pieta, estimated at 800 to 1,200 Euro.

It is a sanitized, less brutal copy of Correggio's Pieta (from 1512, now in the museum in his hometown). The estimate seems about right, at first glance the work seems more valuable but that's because of the quality of the composition, not really the quality of the painting.

Second: Renard, at the Chateau de Gien, sells on 24 October 2015 an "Italian School, 16th century " Holy Family, estimated at a whopping 24,000 to 28,000 Euro.

Which is way too much for a well-painted copy of the Barberini Holy Family of Andrea del Sarto, a truly magnificent painting from ca. 1528.

Finally, the above Penitent Magdalen, an "Antique Continental Oil on Canvas", is estimated at $1,200 to $1,500 by Kodner in Florida (7 October 2015).

It is a late, rather lifeless but not bad copy after Pompeo Batoni, a work lost in Dresden in the Second World War. If you like the copy, I guess it is worth its money. But it doesn't look very antique to me.

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