Wednesday 24 October 2018

"Dutch, ca. 1670" is copy after Vincenzo Campi (or someone close to him)

Henry's, from Germany, sells on 27 October 2018 a "Dutch, ca. 1670 early Baroque painting" of children feeding a cat, estimated at 450 Euro.

As I have already treated that topic, albeit with better paintings, in some earlier blog posts, I took more interest in this one than the actual quality warranted. And sure enough, a much better version of this composition already appeared in my post of December 2016. It was sold at Gros & Delettrez in 2012 with an estimate of 2,000 Euro, and attributed to a follower of Vincenzo Campi.

The current one is charming, and 450 Euro is not a lot for such a work, but it probably isn't Dutch.

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