Wednesday 28 November 2018

"Late 17th century" is copy after lost Carracci

Carlo Bonte, from Belgium, sells on 11 December 2018 a "Late 17th century" portrait of Christ, estimated at 1,500 to 2,500 Euro.

It is a fairly good copy after Annibale Carracci, his now lost (presumably destroyed in WWII) head of Christ from the Dresden Museum. It probably isn't worth much more than the estimate, but copies after lost works are always interesting, and linking such an anonymous work with obvious quality to a known work is what this blog often is about, so... The work for sale has the same dimensions as the original, and probably the same colours, but it is less convincing (which may be improved by cleaning it), and painted on canvas instead of on copper, as the original was.

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