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Lot 157
CIRCLE OF GIANLORENZO BERNINI (NAPLES 1598-1680 ROME)
Portrait of an architect, half-length, in black robes, holding a pair of dividers
Closed8 July 2022
Estimate
GBP 20,000–30,000
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Specialist note
In the 1983 catalogue of the exhibition at the Trafalgar Galleries, Maurizio Marini believed this work to be an autograph self-portrait of Bernini. Francesco Petrucci (op. cit., 2006) rejected this theory due to the marked physiognomic differences with the known likenesses of Bernini. He nonetheless noted its undoubted quality, and positioned it closer to the portraiture of Jacques Courtois, il Borgognone (1621-1676).