Venetian School, 18th century
Capriccio with a masked ball
oil on canvas laid down on panel
22 5/8 x 32½ in. (57.5 x 82.6 cm.)
Venetian School, 18th century
Capriccio with a masked ball
oil on canvas laid down on panel
22 5/8 x 32½ in. (57.5 x 82.6 cm.)
with Victor D. Spark, New York, by 1961.
Dallas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, The Art that Broke the Looking-Glass, 15 November-31 December 1961, p. 24, no. 10, as c. 1740-1750.
We are grateful to Franco Canepa for pointing out the following additional literature for the present lot:
F. Canepa, Gherardo e Giuseppe Poli: la pittura di capriccio nella Toscana di primo settecento, Pisa, 2002, p. 86, no. 40, as Gherardo Poli.
F. Canepa in Fantastiche Vedute: la pittura di capriccio in toscana, dal Ciafferi ai Poli, Pisa, 2006, p. 129, no. 44, as Gherardo Poli.
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