Lot Essay
Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet born in Reggio nell'Emilia. He produced his great poem, Orlando Furioso in 1516, the Roland epic that forms a continuation of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato.
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Italian School, 19th Century
A gentleman believed to be Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), facing left in brown robes with white lace collar, wearing a crown of laurel leaves on his fair hair
extensively inscribed in Italian on a label on the reverse of the frame, gilt-wood frame with grapes and leaves surmount
rectangular, 3½ x 2¼ in. (89 x 57 mm.)
A gentleman believed to be Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), facing left in brown robes with white lace collar, wearing a crown of laurel leaves on his fair hair
extensively inscribed in Italian on a label on the reverse of the frame, gilt-wood frame with grapes and leaves surmount
rectangular, 3½ x 2¼ in. (89 x 57 mm.)