Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, il Fiammenghino (1575-1640)

Portrait of the Artist, bust-length, in black costume and a white ruff

Details

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, il Fiammenghino (1575-1640)
Portrait of the Artist, bust-length, in black costume and a white ruff
inscribed 'GIOVAN MAVR FIAME NGIN /. P .' and inscribed on the reverse 'GIO. MAVR. ROVER DETO IL FIAMENGINO . MILANO D.ETA . ANO . XXXVII . 1612 . DCB.'
oil on panel, unframed
16¼ x 12 3/8in. (41.3 x 31.5)

Provenance

(Probably) Archinto Collection, Milan, by 1775, according to a document listing the works at a restorer's studio in Milan in 1775 (see F. A. Albuzzi, Memorie per servire alla storia de' pittori, scultori e architetti milanesi, ed. G. Nicodemi, L'Arte, 1956, p. 112, no. 16, illustrated).
with the Medici Society.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Alessandro Morandotti for confirming the attribution from a photograph. He compares the present painting to the faces of the musical angels, painted in 1608, in the presbytery in the Church of Saints Gusmeo and Matthew in Gravedona, Como. He also believes the influence of Giulio Cesare Procaccini, always evident in his work, to have found a new, suggestive expression in the present painting.

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