Lot Essay
We are grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for the attribution, made on the basis of photographs. He dates it to 1645-50.
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An Alchemist (?)
Details
Michele Ragolia (Palermo ?-1686 Naples)
An Alchemist (?)
oil on canvas
53 x 39.7/8 in. (135.9 x 101.3 cm.)
An Alchemist (?)
oil on canvas
53 x 39.7/8 in. (135.9 x 101.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale [Shillito]; (+) Christie's, London, 18 March 1935, lot 121, as 'Guercino' (3 gns. to Engel).