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85 - NORTH ITALIAN SCHOOL (CIRCA 1730)GROUP PORTRAIT OF CHILDREN FROM THE TROTTI BENTIVOGLIO FAMILYOil on canvas174 x 254cm (68½ x 100 in.)The Trotti Bentivoglio family were a noble family from Alessandria. Antonio Trotti, a military man, became captain of justice in Bologna and obtained from Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, permission to use his surname and arms, on 25 December 1478, thus creating the Trotti Bentivoglio dynasty.Through the generations, members of the family held administrative roles on a local level on behalf of the Duchy of Milan which owned the city of Castellazzo with all of Alessandria until the Savoy conquest in the eighteenth centruy.The Trotti Bentivoglio family line came to an end in 1930 with the death of Lorenzo Trotti Bentivoglio, a painter and writer, who bequeathed his palace to the municipal administration in Alessandria.
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NORTH ITALIAN SCHOOL (CIRCA 1730)GROUP PORTRAIT OF CHILDREN FROM THE TROTTI BENTIVOGLIO FAMILYOil on canvas174 x 254cm (68½ x 100 in.)The Trotti Bentivoglio family were a noble family from Alessandria. Antonio Trotti, a military man, became captain of justice in Bologna and obtained from Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, permission to use his surname and arms, on 25 December 1478, thus creating the Trotti Bentivoglio dynasty.Through the generations, members of the family held administrative roles on a local level on behalf of the Duchy of Milan which owned the city of Castellazzo with all of Alessandria until the Savoy conquest in the eighteenth centruy.The Trotti Bentivoglio family line came to an end in 1930 with the death of Lorenzo Trotti Bentivoglio, a painter and writer, who bequeathed his palace to the municipal administration in Alessandria. The canvas has been lined. Inspection under UV reveals scattered retouching to the background, most notably to the lower left corner and to the draperies. Further professional restoration has been applied on to the flesh tones, specifically to the far left and far right sitters. Additional retouchings are present to the darker pigments, especially to the folds of the sitters' draperies.
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