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PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)

Lot 29
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 887507
Lot 29 | PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
PIER LEONE GHEZZI (ROME 1674-1755)

Paolo de Matteis in his studio

oil on canvas

15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (39.5 x 29.5 cm.)





Provenance

Lione Pascoli (1674-1744), Rome.

Anthony (Tony) Morris Clark (1923-1976); (†) his sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1978, lot 37.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 15 April 2008, lot 47, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Memorie del Cavalier Leone Ghezzi scritte da se medisimo da gennaro 1731 a luglio 1734, Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 3765.

E. Riccomini, Pittura italiana del Settecento, exhibition catalogue, Bologna, 1974, p. 185.

C. McCorquodale, 'Old Master Paintings at the Chaucer and Van Dam Galleries', The Burlington Magazine, CXX, no. 909, December 1978, p. 866.

A. Negro, 'Un "Allegoria della fortuna" di Giacinto Gimignani per la Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica', Studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Milan, 2000, p. 292.

L. Pestilli, Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe, Burlington, 2013, pp.151, 156, pl. 42.



Exhibited

Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, on loan (no. L69.2).

Chicago, Art Institute; Toledo, Museum of Art, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism, 1970-1971, no. 81.

Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli, Artisti in Roma nel Sei e Settecento, 1988, unnumbered.

Ascoli Piceno, Palazzo dei Capitani, Pier Leone Ghezzi: Settecento alla moda, 8 May-22 August 1999, no. 39.



Special Notice


This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Pierre Leone Guezzi (1674 - 1755)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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