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Mattia Preti, il Cavaliere Calabrese (Taverna, Calabria 1613-1699 Valletta, Malta)
Lot 179

Mattia Preti, il Cavaliere Calabrese (Taverna, Calabria 1613-1699 Valletta, Malta)

Saint Andrew - a bozzetto

Closed9 December 2015

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GBP 16,250

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Mattia Preti, il Cavaliere Calabrese (Taverna, Calabria 1613-1699 Valletta, Malta)
Saint Andrew - a bozzetto
oil on canvas
14 x 9 ¾ in. (35.5 x 24.7 cm.)

Captain and Mrs Ph. de' Conti Manduca, Valletta, Malta.
with Gurr Johns, London, where acquired by W.M. Brady & Co., New York, in 1989, on behalf of the present owner.

Specialist note

This picture is a bozzetto for Preti's monumental altarpiece, painted between 1665 and 1667, for the church of Saint Catherine in Zurrieq, Malta.