Live Auction 20688Old Masters
AFTER CARLO DOLCI
Lot 75 PROPERTY OF A CONNECTICUT LADY

AFTER CARLO DOLCI

Allegory of Poetry

Closed25 May 2023

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AFTER CARLO DOLCI
Allegory of Poetry
oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (57.2 x 44.5 cm.)
in a carved giltwood frame with four painted vignettes of Dante, Petrarch and other poets and four landscapes, further decorated with roundels of simulated lapis lazuli and malachite

[Régence to Fabergé - An apartment by Jed Johnson]; Christie's, London, 20 May 2010, lot 221, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

This painting is after the work by Dolci in the Galleria Corsini, Florence. The Poesia is perhaps Dolci's most famous work and soon after its creation was lauded in treatises on Florentine art and guidebooks to the city, for example those by Filippo Baldinucci and Lanzi.