A nymph and a satyr

Details

Filippo Lauri (Rome 1623-1694)
A nymph and a satyr
oil on copper
7½ x 9 5/8 in. (19.1 x 24.4 cm.)

Provenance

G.M.J.L Whitmore Esq.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1966, from whence acquired by
Edwin Noel August, Baron Plowden of Plowden, G.B.E., K.C.B. (1907-2001), Martels Manor, Great Dunmow, Essex, and by descent to the present owners.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor Giancarlo Sestieri for confirming the attribution to Filippo Lauri on the basis of photographs. Professor Sestieri dates the painting to circa 1670, finding analogies with the frescoes in Palazzo Borghese, Rome.

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