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Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Francesco Salviati

Portrait of a man in black

Lot Closed

December 9, 03:49 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property restituted from the Olomouc Museum of Art, Czech Republic

Francesco Salviati

Portrait of a man in black


oil on canvas

unframed: 84.2 x 62.8 cm.; 33⅛ x 24¾ in.

framed: 97 x 75.6 cm.; 38¼ x 29¾ in.

With K. Dittrich, Brno;
From whom acquired by a private collector, Czech Republic, mid-1950s;
From whom confiscated and deposited at the Olomouc Museum of Art (inv. no. D452), in 1958;
Returned to the heirs of the original owner in 1993, when loaned to the Olomouc Museum of Art.
Olomouc, Olomouc Museum of Art, 1994-2021, on loan.
J. Neumann in J. Neumann, E.A. Šafařik (eds), Mistrovská díla starého umění v Olomouci, exh. cat., Olomouc 1967, pp. 120-22, no. 35, reproduced p. 121;
J. Neumann, Neznámá díla italských mistrů v Olomouci, Umění XVII, Olomouc 1969, p. 15, reproduced p. 6;
L. Mortari, F. Salviati, Rome 1992, p. 162, no. 192, reproduced;
L. Daniel, O. Pujmanová, M. Togner, M. Soukup (eds), Italian Painting of the 14th-18th Centuries from Olomouc Collections. Olomouc Picture Gallery, vol. I, Olomouc 1996, pp. 146-47, no. 82, reproduced p. 146 (as a copy dating to the end of the 16th century).

This work is a copy after the prime version by Francesco Salviati in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.1


1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/francesco-de-rossi-francesco-salviati