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Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars) Portrait of Virginio Cesarini (1595-1624), bust-length, in clerical dress image 1
Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars) Portrait of Virginio Cesarini (1595-1624), bust-length, in clerical dress image 2
Lot 73

Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck
(Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)
Portrait of Virginio Cesarini (1595-1624), bust-length, in clerical dress

17 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)

Portrait of Virginio Cesarini (1595-1624), bust-length, in clerical dress
oil on canvas
55.3 x 46.7cm (21 3/4 x 18 3/8in).

Footnotes

Virginio Cesarini was a poet and defender of Galileo who was a courtier in the service of Cardinal Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII. The present composition, which shows Cesarini in clerical dress, is related to van Dyck's portrait of circa 1623-4 in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.

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