24 janvier 2011
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp), Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga as a boy
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp), Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga as a boy; Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2011
oil on canvas; 32 x 22¼ in. (81.2 x 56.5 cm.) - Estimate $700,000 - $1,000,000
Provenance/ Presumably painted for Vincenzo I Gonzaga (1562-1612), Duke of Mantua. Probably one of the Gonzaga pictures acquired by the Contarini family, Venice.Dr. Martin Schubart (1808-1891); his sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, no. 97, as 'Moroni'.Acquired by the present owner in 2000.
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