The Property of a Nobleman
Attributed to Bernhard Keil, called Monsù Bernardo
A pair of apostles
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The Property of a Nobleman
Attributed to Bernhard Keil, called Monsù Bernardo
Helsingör 1624–1687 Rome
A pair of apostles
a pair, both oil on copper
one indistinctly inscribed, lower right, on the scroll: Ano: [...]
one unframed: 26.8 x 35.5 cm.; 10½ x 14 in.
framed: 39.5 x 48.1 cm.; 15½ x 19 in.
the other unframed: 26.9 x 35.3 cm.; 10⅝ x 13⅞ in.
framed: 39.7 x 48 cm.; 15⅝ x 18⅞ in.
(2)
Don Carlo Giovene, 9th Duke of Girasole (1868–1933), Naples (according to a label on the reverse);
Thence by descent.
In their compositional design and facial types, these paintings compare closely with two pictures by Keil, both of which can be dated to the mid-1650s.1
We are grateful to Prof. Riccardo Lattuada for endorsing an attribution to Keil on the basis of digital images.
1 Both oil on canvas, one 62 x 74 cm., dimensions unrecorded for the other; M. Heimbürger, Bernardo Keilhau detto Monsù Bernado, Rome 1988, pp. 199–200, nos 94–95, reproduced.
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