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Attributed to Johan Stephan da Calcar, called Giovanni da Calcar (Calcar 1499-1546/50 Naples)
Lot 94

Attributed to Johan Stephan da Calcar, called Giovanni da Calcar (Calcar 1499-1546/50 Naples)

Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, in a black doublet with crimson sleeves and a black hat, a dagger in his right hand and sword in his left, before a green curtain

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Attributed to Johan Stephan da Calcar, called Giovanni da Calcar (Calcar 1499-1546/50 Naples)
Portrait of a bearded man, half-length, in a black doublet with crimson sleeves and a black hat, a dagger in his right hand and sword in his left, before a green curtain
oil on panel
42½ x 29¼ in. (125.5 x 61.3 cm.)

Robert S. Holford, M.P., Dorchester House, by 1887, as Palma Vecchio,
and by descent to
Sir George T. Holford , K.C.V.O., C.I.E., C.B.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; (+) Christie's, London, 15 July 1927, lot 31 as Giovanni da Calcar (2,300gns. to Buttery).
Horace Ayherst Buttery; (+) Sale, Christie's, London, 24 May 1963, lot 63.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 5 July 1991, lot 83 as Attributed to Giovanni da Calcar.
with Colnaghi, New York, 1994.

Specialist note

The present work can be compared with Calcar's Portrait of Attila Grimaldi, exhibited in The Hague in 1925, which can be dated to the 1530s, when Calcar's ability to fuse the Netherlandish treatment of fabrics with the poetic, patrician demeanor of Venetian Cinquecento portraiture, was most in evidence.