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
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
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
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
Pastoral landscape 17th Century
Oil on canvas.
38.58 x 48.43 in.
Starting price: € 7.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
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
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Starting price: € 5.000
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
Landscape with figures
Oil on English canvas and frame.
41.34 x 47.24 in.
Starting price: € 10.000
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
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
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Starting price: € 15.000
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
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
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
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Set of four xylographies
18th Century
Xylography on paper applied on canvas, depicting four masks.
6.3 x 4.5 in.
Starting price: € 300
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
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Starting price: € 8.000