Live Auction 529819th Century European Art
Oreste Cortazzo (Italian, b. 1836)
Lot 108

Oreste Cortazzo (Italian, b. 1836)

Peeking behind the curtain

Closed11 September 2014

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GBP 1,500

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Oreste Cortazzo (Italian, b. 1836)
Peeking behind the curtain
signed and dated 'O. Cortazzo/1871' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 15 in. (46.4 x 38 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1991, Lot 365

Specialist note

Cortazzo was a pupil of Bonnat. He worked in Paris for the art dealer Goupil and he received an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889.