Lot Essay
The two girls in the present picture recur with variations on the right side of the large 'Children's School' in the National Gallery of Ireland (Heimbürger, op. cit., p.238, no.169, illustrated in colour)
Details
Eberhart Keilhau, called Monsù Bernardo (1624-1687)
A Girl seated making Lace and a Girl holding a Letterboard
(An Allegory of Sight)
28¼ x 38 5/8in. (72 x 98.2cm.)
In a Louis XIII carved and gilded frame
A Girl seated making Lace and a Girl holding a Letterboard
(An Allegory of Sight)
28¼ x 38 5/8in. (72 x 98.2cm.)
In a Louis XIII carved and gilded frame
Provenance
Briganti Collection, Rome, 1920
with Matthiesen, London, (Exhibition of Venetian Paintings, c.1938?, no.48, as Domenico Fetti)
with Matthiesen, London, (Exhibition of Venetian Paintings, c.1938?, no.48, as Domenico Fetti)
Literature
Rassegna d'Arte, May 1920, illustrated, as Domenico Fetti
M. Heimbürger, Bernardo Keilhau detto Monsù Bernardo, 1988, p.239, no.171, illustrated
M. Heimbürger, Bernardo Keilhau detto Monsù Bernardo, 1988, p.239, no.171, illustrated