Live Auction 1986Important Old Master Paintings Part I And Part II
Attributed to Paolo Caliari, il Veronese Verona 1528-1588 Venice
Lot 240 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JACQUES GOUDSTIKKER

Attributed to Paolo Caliari, il Veronese Verona 1528-1588 Venice

Portrait of a gentleman, seated three-quarter length

Closed15 April 2008

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Attributed to Paolo Caliari, il Veronese Verona 1528-1588 Venice
Portrait of a gentleman, seated three-quarter length
oil on canvas
53 x 38¾ in. 134.6 x 98.4 cm.

with Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1927.
Looted by the Nazi authorities, July 1940.
Recovered by the Allies, 1945.
in the custody of the Dutch Government.
Restituted in February 2006 to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.

Specialist note

The present portrait has been accepted as autograph by Osmond (1927) and Fiocco (1934), as well as more recently by Teresio Pignatti and Filippo Pedrocco (1995), though Marini expressed some reservations (1968). Stylistically it relates to two other portraits of gentlemen, one in Amsterdam and one in Dresden, and the three-quarter-length format was a favorite of the artist. The bold brushwork and dark tonality of the composition, with the black-robed, dark-bearded sitter set against a somber ground, suggest a later dating.