GIOVANNI BATTISTA ABRET (bottega di)

(Antwerp, 1640 - Turin, 1709) View of Piazza Castello Oil on canvas, cm 60.5X78 Provenance: Turin, private collection See card at next lot. Thanks to Arabella Cifani for attribution and historical notes. Reference bibliography: A. Cifani, F. Monetti, I Piaceri e le Grazie. Collecting, genre and landscape painting between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Turin 1993, ad indicem A. Cifani, F. Monetti, The unpublished collection of paintings of Pietro Mellarède (1659-1730), minister of Victor Amadeus II, and his heirs from the Castle of Betton Bettonet in Savoy (France), in: Essays and Memoirs of Art History, Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation 2010, pp. 165-203 A. Cifani , F. Monetti, The extraordinary collection of paintings of Pietro Mellarède (1659-1730), minister of vittorio Amedeo II, and his heirs from the Castle of Betton Bettonet in Savoy in: Utrecht 1713; the treaties that opened the gates of Italy to the Savoy. Studies for the third centenary, edited by Gustavo Mola di Nomaglio and Giancarlo Melano, Turin 2014, pp. 391-419