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Lot 115

Attributed to Vincenzo Catena (?Venice c. 1470/80-1531)

Portrait of a lady, bust-length in profile, with a string-of-pearls headdress and a grey veil, in a green mantle, holding a medal

Closed9 December 2009

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Attributed to Vincenzo Catena (?Venice c. 1470/80-1531)
Portrait of a lady, bust-length in profile, with a string-of-pearls headdress and a grey veil, in a green mantle, holding a medal
oil on panel, unframed
23 x 17¾ in. (58.4 x 45.1 cm.)

with Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London (according to a label on the reverse).
Charles Newton Robinson, London; Lepke, Berlin, 31 March 1914, lot 44, as 'Portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by Ercole Grandi'.
Ms. Olga Schnitzler, Vienna, before 1954.

Specialist note

This profile portrait is very close to the one attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo in the painting of a group of three figures in the Detroit Institute of Art, that some scholars judge to be the work of three hands: Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano. Other art historians consider the painting in Detroit to be by a 17th century pasticheur, and if this is the case, this picture could have served as a model.