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Clemente Spera
(active Lombardy, circa 1661-1730)
An architectural capriccio with figures resting before a fountain

8 December 2016, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £14,375 inc. premium

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Clemente Spera (active Lombardy, circa 1661-1730)

An architectural capriccio with figures resting before a fountain
oil on canvas
106.9 x 178.1cm (42 1/16 x 70 1/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 8 (The Property of an Educational Institution, as Giovanni Ghisolfi)
With Cesare Lampronti, Rome, 1991, where purchased by the present owners

Literature
Ed. G. Sestieri, Vedute e paesaggi italiani ed europei dal XVI al XVIII secolo, exh. cat., Rome, 1991, p. 84, no. 47, ill.

We are grateful to Prof. David Marshall for confirming the attribution based on a colour photograph.

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