Sale 5432
London, South Kensington
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29 October 2008
Price realised
GBP 6,000
Estimate
Circle of Antonio David (b. Venice, before 1684, active Rome) Portrait of a youth of the Order of Malta, half-length, in a red velvet coat with silver frogging and embroidered cuffs, and a medallion of the Order of Malta, a tricorn in his left hand oil on canvas 29½ x 24½ in. (75 x 62.3 cm.)
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