Lot 1440: After GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI (1520-1578) Italian

After GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI (1520-1578) Italian The tailor Oil on board, 40x 30 ins

Giovanni Battista Moroni's The Tailor - a 16th-century portrait of a man in cream doublet and red hose, looking steadily and sensitively out of the picture as he poses, scissors in hand, to cut a piece of black cloth - is one of the greatest paintings in the National Gallery, London, UK Giovanni Battista Moroni (c 1520/24[1] - February 5, 1578) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period He is also called Giambattista Moroni Known for his starkly realistic depictions, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of the sixteenth century Italy