Lot No. 22


Giovanni Maria Butteri


(Florence circa 1540–1606/8)
Pietà,
oil on panel, 53 x 53 cm, framed

Provenance:
possibly Christie’s, London, 2 June 1953, lot 111 (as Venusti, sold for 9 gns. to Cooke)

We are grateful to Mauro Lucco for suggesting the attribution after examining the present painting in the original. He dates this panel to the 1570s, when the artist was employed in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Specialist: Mark MacDonnell Mark MacDonnell
+43 1 515 60 403

mark.macdonnell@dorotheum.at

15.12.2023 - 15:11

Estimate:
EUR 10,000.- to EUR 15,000.-
Starting bid:
EUR 10,000.-

Giovanni Maria Butteri


(Florence circa 1540–1606/8)
Pietà,
oil on panel, 53 x 53 cm, framed

Provenance:
possibly Christie’s, London, 2 June 1953, lot 111 (as Venusti, sold for 9 gns. to Cooke)

We are grateful to Mauro Lucco for suggesting the attribution after examining the present painting in the original. He dates this panel to the 1570s, when the artist was employed in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francesco I de’ Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Specialist: Mark MacDonnell Mark MacDonnell
+43 1 515 60 403

mark.macdonnell@dorotheum.at


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