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Lot 106 - Anthonius van Dick (bottega di) - Portrait of a Genoese Patrician 1625 - 1627 oil on canvas 75 x 65 cm Didier Bodart, in an expertise dated May 9, 2007, assigns the work as autograph by the great Dutch master, dating it to the years of his stay in Genoa (1625 - 1627). The production of that period consists mainly of portraits of Ligurian aristocrats, whose names are unfortunately often difficult to trace. As Bodart reminds us, van Dick dictated and imposed a dominant aesthetic model that would be repeated by other Genoese painters for most of the century, but unfortunately without keeping account books or other writings that can help us today to know the identities of the people portrayed. It is therefore virtually impossible, except in a few very rare cases, to name the faces of the Vandickian portraits. Moreover, his speed of execution leads him, in certain cases, to present effigies that are very similar to each other. In the specific case presented here, strong affinities are discerned, both in the quality of execution and in the manner of representation, with three paintings executed during the same period: The Portrait of Lui van Uffel (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), The Portrait of François Duquesnoy (Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique) andia Double Portrait of the Brothers Lucas and Cornelis de Wael (Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina), all three of which are very similar to the Portrait of a Genoese Patrician. The psychological effectiveness and counterpoint of the colors and light reflections used make this undoubtedly a painting of the highest quality and of great interest.

Estim. 12 000 - 15 000 EUR

Lot 109 - Portrait of Alessandra Bocchineri 1621-23 Oil painting on canvas 72 x 57cm Thanks to the inscription on the bottom "Alessandra Bocchineri Francesco Rasio Nvpta" the depicted is identified as Alessandra Bocchineri. Daughter of the Florentine poet Carlo Bocchineri and wife of the Florentine musician Francesco Rasi, musician of both the Medici court and that of Gonzaga. According to the long biography dedicated to Rasi by Warren Kirkendale, the wedding was celebrated on September 4, 1621 in Pistoia in the house of the bride's mother Polissena Gatteschi and the spouses left immediately after the wedding for Mantua. Since in our portrait Alessandra wears the widow's dress, the portrait can be dated after the death of Francesco Rasi, who died in Mantua on November 30, 1621. According to Kirkendale, the young widow found refuge with the Duchess of Mantua Caterina di Ferdinando de' Medici and, later in Vienna, with Empress Eleonora Gonzaga, where she married again to an Italian diplomat named Francesco Buonamici in 1623, a date which constitutes a useful ante quem term for dating this widow's portrait. Given the acquaintance between Caterina de' Medici and Justus Sustermans, who in 1621 was appointed court painter and the different affinities with works by the Master of Antwerp it seems reasonable to hypothesize that the portrait was painted in Mantua by Sustermans between December 1621 and 1623 before of the departure to Vienna. Within a golden frame.

Estim. 8 000 - 12 000 EUR