Live Auction 2335Christie's Interiors
Studio of Simone Pignoni (Italian, 17th Century)
Lot 89 Property from the Collection of Professor and Mrs. Clifford Ambrose Truesdell

Studio of Simone Pignoni (Italian, 17th Century)

Danaë

Closed1 September 2010

Price Realised

USD 5,000

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

Studio of Simone Pignoni (Italian, 17th Century)
Danaë
oil on canvas
20½ x 26½ in. (52.1 x 67.3 cm.)1

Specialist note

Prof. Francesca Baldassari has identified this as a reduced studio version of a painting by Simone Pignoni (see F. Baldassari, Simone Pignoni, Torino, 2008, p. 163 n. 108; private collection, 122 x 160 cm.). We are grateful for her assistance in cataloguing this lot, from photographs (written communication, 6 December 2008).

It is possible that the present work is a modello for the published work.