Lot
340
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
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
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)