ID 1126223
Lot 15 | BONIFACIO DE' PITATI, CALLED BONIFACIO VERONESE (VERONA 1487-1553 VENICE)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
The Adoration of the Shepherds
oil on canvas
69 ¼ x 99 in. (176 x 251.5 cm.)
Provenance
Dr. H. Börner, by whom sold,
[The Property of Dr. H. Börner]; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1974, lot 97, where acquired by a private collector and by whom gifted on 24 April 2018 to the present owner.
Literature
S. Simonetti, ‘Profilo de Bonifacio de’ Pitati,’ Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte, 1986, XV, p. 129, no. A256.
M. Lucco, La pittura nel Veneto: Il Cinquecento, Milan, 1996, p. 75.
P. Cottrell, Bonifacio's Enterprise: Bonifacio de' Pitati and Venetian Painting, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, 2000, p. 100.
N. Penny, The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings: Venice 1540–1600, II, London, 2008, p. XIV.
G.E. Markou, ‘Bonifacio de’ Pitati’s “Triumphs of Petrarch” and their Cypriot patron,’ The Burlington Magazine, 2017, CLIX, p. 605, under note 28.
P. Cottrell and P. Humfrey, Bonifacio de' Pitati, Treviso, 2023, p. 334, no. 39, illustrated.
Exhibited
South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, on loan 1984-2020.
| Artist: | Bonifacio Veronese (1487 - 1553) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Bonifacio Veronese (1487 - 1553) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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