Portrait of a Boy, half-length, wearing a tan coat, an embroidered yellow waistcoat and a sword, with a tricorn hat under his arm - in a painted oval

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Attributed to Vittore Ghislandi, Fra' Galgario (1655-1743)
Portrait of a Boy, half-length, wearing a tan coat, an embroidered yellow waistcoat and a sword, with a tricorn hat under his arm - in a painted oval
oil on canvas
29 7/8 x 24¾in. (76 x 63cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's, 23 Oct. 1970, lot 181, as 'Ghislandi'.

Literature

M.C. Gozzoli, Vittore Ghislandi detto Fra' Galgario in I Pittori Bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX Secolo: Il Settecento I, Bergamo, 1982, p. 133, no. 224, and p. 195, fig. 2, under 'Opere attribuite'.
E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 499, note 146, fig. 108, as Fra' Galgario.

Lot Essay

While Maria Cristina Gozzoli questioned the attribution, loc. cit., on the basis of a photograph, it was endorsed by Egidio Martini,
loc. cit., who compares the painting with the Portrait of Polo Querini in the Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice, previously attributed to Sebastiano Bombelli (his fig. 109); he tentatively dates both to the beginning of Ghislandi's second Venetian period, c. 1700.

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