Copy after ANTONIO ALLEGRI, called IL CORREGGIO
Copy after ANTONIO ALLEGRI, called IL CORREGGIO
(circa 1489 Correggio 1534)Madonna and Child with an angel.Oil on panel.72 × 59.8 cm.
Lot 6040* - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only
Provenance:
European collection.
Exhibited:
- Mainz 1968, Werke alter Meister aus Privatbesitz, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, 7 May–30 June 1968.
- Vienna 1916, Religiöse Malerei, Diözesan Museum, 1916, no. 5 (verso with label).
Literature:
Exh. cat. Werke alter Meister aus Privatbesitz, ed. Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Mainz 1968, cat. no. 24 (as PIETRO BERRETTINI CORTONA, called PIETRO DA CORTONA).
Oil on panel. Verso with labels, wax seal, coarse tool marks and adhesive traces. Vertical inset wooden reinforcements on the right, left and centre, with a canvas reinforcement in the centre and along the margins (see photograph of reverse). Paint surface in places with a network of craquelure, partly painted. With later overpainting. One vertical hairline crack at the centre of the left side margin. Isolated paint losses and colour abrasion on the figures and along the margins.
Under UV light areas of retouching visible on the flesh tones and clothing of the figures. Further areas of retouching visible in the background. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Frame: 94.4 × 81.8 cm.
Condition reports are made by us after a thorough examination and to the best of our knowledge and belief. However, we are not professional restorers, so condition reports reflect only our personal assessment.
The objects are auctioned in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. We cannot guarantee the condition reports we prepare.
Copy after ANTONIO ALLEGRI, called IL CORREGGIO
(circa 1489 Correggio 1534)Madonna and Child with an angel.Oil on panel.72 × 59.8 cm.
Lot 6040* - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only
Provenance:
European collection.
Exhibited:
- Mainz 1968, Werke alter Meister aus Privatbesitz, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, 7 May–30 June 1968.
- Vienna 1916, Religiöse Malerei, Diözesan Museum, 1916, no. 5 (verso with label).
Literature:
Exh. cat. Werke alter Meister aus Privatbesitz, ed. Hans-Jürgen Imiela, Mainz 1968, cat. no. 24 (as PIETRO BERRETTINI CORTONA, called PIETRO DA CORTONA).
Oil on panel. Verso with labels, wax seal, coarse tool marks and adhesive traces. Vertical inset wooden reinforcements on the right, left and centre, with a canvas reinforcement in the centre and along the margins (see photograph of reverse). Paint surface in places with a network of craquelure, partly painted. With later overpainting. One vertical hairline crack at the centre of the left side margin. Isolated paint losses and colour abrasion on the figures and along the margins.
Under UV light areas of retouching visible on the flesh tones and clothing of the figures. Further areas of retouching visible in the background. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Frame: 94.4 × 81.8 cm.
Condition reports are made by us after a thorough examination and to the best of our knowledge and belief. However, we are not professional restorers, so condition reports reflect only our personal assessment.
The objects are auctioned in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. We cannot guarantee the condition reports we prepare.
