Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 44
Circle of Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese(Verona 1528-1588 Venice)Susannah and the Elders in a carved and gilt Sansovino style frame
8 December 2016, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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Circle of Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528-1588 Venice)
Susannah and the Elders
oil on panel
45.3 x 53.2cm (17 13/16 x 20 15/16in).
in a carved and gilt Sansovino style frame
oil on panel
45.3 x 53.2cm (17 13/16 x 20 15/16in).
in a carved and gilt Sansovino style frame
Footnotes
Provenance
The Manfrin Collection (a family of Venetian tobacco merchants who owned Georgione's Tempest)
The Collection of the Cavendish-Bentinck family by 1872, by descent to
George Augustus Frederick Cavendish Bentinck M.P., sold by his executors
Sale, Christie's, London, 11 July 1891, lot 608 (as P. Veronese)
The Collection of Sir William Farrer, London, after 1894
His granddaughter, the Hon. Mrs Helen Bruce, and thence by descent
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1966, lot 62
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1967, lot 81 (bt. Mr Fordham)
Private Collection, UK, thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Winter exhibition, 1872, no. 223 (as Paolo Veronese)
London, The New Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Art, 1894-5, no. 274 (as Paolo Veronese)
Literature
Catalogo dei quadri esistenti nella Galleria Manfrin in Venezia, Venice, 1856, no. 236
R. Marini Tutta la pittura di Paolo Veronese, Milan, 1968, no. 424 (as attributed to Veronese)
T. Pignatti, Veronese, Venice, 1976, p. 190, no. A156, v. II, fig. 856 (erroneously given as on canvas)
Two other paintings of this subject by Veronese himself are known; one in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, the other in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.
