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Niccolò Codazzi

Naples 1642 – 1693 Genoa

Pair of supraports with architectural capriccios: Doric portico with canal and thermal hall with bathing people – Gregorio de Ferrari (1647–1726). Circa 1670

Oil on canvas. 151,3 × 126,5 cm (59 ⅝ × 49 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Niccolò Codazzi. Pair of supraports with architectural capriccios: Doric portico with canal and thermal hall with bathing people – Gregorio de Ferrari (1647–1726). Circa 1670.

Estimate:

EUR 25,000

 

- 30,000

USD 29,400

 

- 35,300

Sold for:

30,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Oil on canvas. 151,3 × 126,5 cm (59 ⅝ × 49 ¾ in.). Each inscribed in chalk: 3 und 4. Relined. Framed

Related literature: David Ryley Marshall: Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi and the Baroque Architectural Fantasy. Rome, 1993, p. 79.

Presumably originally Palazzo Rosso, Genoa / collection of the Couturiers Erik Müller, Côte d'Azur (1968) / private collection, Paris

Maison & Jardin, no. 146 (August, September 1968) / Auction: Alte Meister. Vienna, Dorotheum, 6 Oktober 2009, cat.-no. 63 (figures as Paolo Gerolamo Piola) / Giancarlo Sestieri: Il Capriccio architettonico in Italia nel XVII e XVIII secolo. Rome, 2015, p. 280, ill. 40a and 40b (as Niccolò Codazzi); the counterparts: p. 266, ill. 12a and 12b (as Niccolò Codazzi, figures as de Ferrari)