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Important ancient oil painting on canvas high epoch last decades of the seventeenth century XVII of clear historical and artistic importance. Measures cm canvas 44,50 x 77 with frame 60 x 92. The painting is a classic of ancient pictorial representations The late lamented Christ, The artist places in the foreground the dying Christ in the arms of Mary flanked by an angel holding the hand of Christ. On the background to the right the cross. The work is of the highest pictorial quality attributable to the Northern Veneto area between Bassano and Feltre. These areas saw between six hundred and six hundred the flourishing of a Venetian painting of the highest excellence with artists among the most important in Italy including Jacopo da Bassano and later his sons Francesco and Leandro. It is from these great artists that we must look for the analogies of the work in sales. The artist certainly comes from the Veneto school of Bassano many similarities in the features of the faces in the care of the drapery in the composition. Without a doubt a work of the highest seventeenth-century pictorial quality. Ancient frame not coeval mid-eighteenth century. IMPORTANT: The work is sold accompanied by expertise, scientific analysis (IR Riflettografie) and restoration report. The work has undergone a conservative restoration with cleaning and rintelo by Nicola Restauri S.r.l. Aramengo one of the most important restoration centers in northern Italy.
Provenance Italy, private collection.
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