FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART


AUCTION
Tuesday 22 September 2020
9.30 am | lots 1-292
2 pm | lots 293-665
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17

VIEWING
From Thursday 10 September by appointment only (+39 011 0199101; info@astebolaffi.it).
From Thursday 17 to Tuesday 22 September 2020, free entrance from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17

Lot 301

The Queen of Sheba offers gifts to King Solomon
Oil on canvas. 
46.46 x 59.84 in.

Bibliografia/Literature
M. Priarone, Andrea Ansaldo 1584-1638, SAGEP, Genova, 2011, pp. 250-251, n. 33.

Starting price: € 35.000

Lot 302

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with St. Joseph and St. John the Baptist
Oil on board. 
11.02 x 13.39 in.

Starting price: € 4.000

Lot 303

Demi-lune console table
17th-18th Century
Walnut, with demi-lune top and opposing scrolls legs jointed by crosspiece.
29.5 x 50 x 23 in.

Starting price: € 600

Lot 304

Pastoral landscape 17th Century
Oil on canvas. 
38.58 x 48.43 in.

Starting price: € 7.000 | Sold for : € 7.000

Lot 305

Landscape with ruins, animals and a figure, Diocletian thermal baths
Oil on canvas. 
50.39 x 75.20 in.
The central image, depicting a pair of shepherds on horseback, is taken from a famous etching by the Dutch master Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), a prolific painter known for his pastoral landscape with mythological scenes and biblical read all

Starting price: € 5.000

Lot 306

Large armchair
Probably Tuscany, 17th Century
Walnut, with leather and brass studs seat and backrest, two gilt-wood friezes at the back sides, turned armrests uprights and quadrangular legs joined by crosspiece. 
60.2 x 28 x 24.4 in.

Starting price: € 500

Lot 307

Landscape with figures
Oil on English canvas and frame. 
41.34 x 47.24 in.

Starting price: € 10.000

Lot 308

Desk
17th Century and later
Walnut, with shaped rectangular top surmounted by a small riser with two drawers, on opposing scrolls legs and wrought iron crosspiece.
Remakes and replacements.
37.4 x 39.4 x 23.6 in.

Starting price: € 350

Lot 309

Rachel hiding the idols
Oil on canvas. 
36.61 x 45.28 in.

Starting price: € 6.000

Lot 310

The Temptation of Saint Anthony and a wizard's scene
Pair of oil on canvas. 
14.76 x 18.70 in.
The two delightful paintings fit smoothly into the artistic climate that raged in the mid-17th Century, in the Tuscany of the acclaimed Lorraine engraver Jacques Callot, who printed fantasies like these, drawn from the variegated read all

Starting price: € 15.000

Lot 311

Pastoral landscape with a tower
Oil on canvas. 
36.42 x 38.78 in.

Starting price: € 3.000

Lot 312

Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on board.
17.72 x 12.99 in.
Expressive virile portrait in 17th Century style, which the oral tradition and a writing on the reverse of the painting propose to be Luigi Cherubini's (1760-1842), a great Italian composer and exponent of the classicist current.

Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150

Lot 313

Chest-of-drawers
17th Century and later
Walnut, with four drawers and liftable top.
Replacements and restorations.  
41.7 x 31.5 x 17.3 in.

Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 650

Lot 314

Saint Ursula 17th Century
Oil on canvas. 
45.67 x 36.22 in.
Restorations. 
The history of Saint Ursula is made famous by a medieval legend, Ursula was a very devoted princess who undertook a pilgrimage to Rome before her wedding, on her return to Cologne (383 AD is assumed) she was martyred read all

Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 10.000

Lot 315

Christ carrying the cross 17th Century
Oil on canvas. 
38.58 x 29.33 in.
In beautiful 18th Century carved gilt-wood frame.

Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.200

Lot 316

St. Jerome tempted in the desert
Oil on oval canvas. 
18.11 x 23.62 in.
In beautiful early-18th Century carved gilt-wood frame.
Minor losses. 

Starting price: € 8.000 | Sold for : € 8.000

Lot 317

Large floor bookstand
18th Century
Carved and blue and ocher painted wood, with red velvet top, crossing uprights joined by turned crosspiece.
56.3 x 19.7 x 30.1 in.

Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700

Lot 318

Battle
Oil on canvas. 
18.90 x 28.35 in.

Starting price: € 4.000

Lot 319

Pair of battles
Oil on canvas. 
23.23 x 29.13 in.

Starting price: € 4.000

Lot 320

Vestibolo con portico circolare 1708
Pen and watercolor on paper. 
10.47 x 7.20 in.
Bearing inscription 'P.R. 708' on the reverse. 

Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Christie's, Roma, 8 Luglio 1976, lotto n. 46. 
Collezione privata, Bologna. 

Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200

Lot 321

Verona 1671
Etching on two joint sheets.
Traces of glue on the joints.
24.80 x 32.68 in.
Very rare etching executed in 16th Century style that shows the city in a precise and punctual way as it was in the mid-17th Century, decorated by three cartouches with the arms of the city.

Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550

Lot 322

Augusta Praetoria Aosta Mid-17th Century
Etching on two joint sheets. 
Light browning and some marginal spotting. 
21.65 x 49.21 in.
Famous bird's eye view from Blaeu's Theatrum Sabaudiae. 

Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350

Lot 323

Brayde Oppidum, vernacule Bra Late 17th Century
Beautiful bird's eye view etching from one of the editions of "Theatrum Sabaudiae", some browning and spotting, in a modern frame.
20.47 x 24.41 in.

Starting price: € 200

Lot 324

Set of four xylographies
18th Century
Xylography on paper applied on canvas, depicting four masks.
6.3 x 4.5 in.

Starting price: € 300

Lot 325

Salome
Oil on canvas. 
42.52 x 57.48 in.
First of the two Montalto brothers, Giovanni Stefano Danedi, he was an artist who "[...] did not completely follow in the manner of his teacher Morazzone, but he refined it on the example of his brother and painted with accuracy and love read all

Starting price: € 8.000

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