Portrait of a venetian Procurator
Sebastiano Bombelli (Udine 1635 - Venedig 1719)
Lot-No. 13
Proceeds : 5.000 €
Oil/canvas, 125 x 97 cm, rest., very small hole. - Expert report: Ugo Ruggeri, Venice. According to Prof. Ruggeri it is one of the best paintings of the mature period of the artist from circa 1675-80. - Important venetian portrait painter, after early training in Udine he continued his studies in the workshop of Guercino in Bologna, he moved to Venice where he copied Veronese but was also influenced by the Florentine Sustermans, his portraits are considered to be the climax of their genre in late baroque Venice, numerous commissions for the courts of Florence, Munich, Vienna a. Brunswick testify to the high esteem for his art. - Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), Venice, Munich, Dresden, Brunswick, a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, a. others.
Sebastiano Bombelli: Portrait of a venetian Procurator
Sebastiano Bombelli (Udine 1635 - Venedig 1719)
Portrait of a venetian Procurator
Lot-No. 13
Proceeds : 5.000 €
Oil/canvas, 125 x 97 cm, rest., very small hole. - Expert report: Ugo Ruggeri, Venice. According to Prof. Ruggeri it is one of the best paintings of the mature period of the artist from circa 1675-80. - Important venetian portrait painter, after early training in Udine he continued his studies in the workshop of Guercino in Bologna, he moved to Venice where he copied Veronese but was also influenced by the Florentine Sustermans, his portraits are considered to be the climax of their genre in late baroque Venice, numerous commissions for the courts of Florence, Munich, Vienna a. Brunswick testify to the high esteem for his art. - Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), Venice, Munich, Dresden, Brunswick, a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, a. others.