Live Auction 7842Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 108 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Francesco de Mura (Naples 1696-1782)

Portrait of the artist, three-quarter-length, seated, holding a pencil, at an easel with a picture of Minerva

Closed30 April 2010

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GBP 18,750

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Francesco de Mura (Naples 1696-1782)
Portrait of the artist, three-quarter-length, seated, holding a pencil, at an easel with a picture of Minerva
oil on canvas
50½ x 40 in. (128.3 x 101.6 cm.)

Heinrich Freiherr von Tucher; Cassirer und Helbing, Berlin, 8 December 1925, lot 91.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1985, lot 134.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1987, lot 20.

Specialist note

There are versions of this portrait in the Uffizi, Florence, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.