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Follower of Polidoro da Caravaggio
Lot 110 Property from the Private Collection of Margot Gordon

Follower of Polidoro da Caravaggio

A trompe-l'oeil of a plaster or marble bas-relief of Roman soldiers: a fragment

Closed27 April 2017

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Follower of Polidoro da Caravaggio
A trompe-l'oeil of a plaster or marble bas-relief of Roman soldiers: a fragment

oil on canvas
41 ½ x 34 ¼ in. (105.4 x 87.1 cm.)

Palazzo Massimo, Rome.
Marcello Aldega, New York, from whom acquired c. 1992 by Margot Gordon.

Specialist note

This sculptural, fictive bas-relief is one of four related fragments, one of which is in the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton (y1992-18), and the other two of which are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998.238; and 1998.204). All four works were originally in the Palazzo Massimo, Rome.