Gaspare Traversi

Lot 59: GASPARE TRAVERSI

Name: GASPARE TRAVERSI
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: ca3feac62c

Est: $150,000 USD - $250,000 USD

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2012

Item Overview

Description

NAPLES 1722/4 - 1770 (?) ROME
THE SEWING LESSON
oil on canvas
51 5/8 by 62 1/8 in.; 131 by 158 cm.

Artist or Maker

Gaspare Traversi

Literature

N. Spinosa in Sebastiano Conca (1680 - 1764), exhibition catalogue, Gaeta 1981, p. 82, reproduced fig. 9;
N. Spinosa, Pittura napolitana del Settecento, dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples 1987, p.97, cat. no. 83, reproduced fig.101;
N. Spinosa, Gaspare Traversi, napoletani del '700 tra miseria e nobilità, exhibition catalogue, Naples 2003-2004, p. 227, cat. no. R18.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1979, lot 45;
With Colnaghi, London;
Private Collection, London, by 1981;
Anonymous sale, Milan, Christie's, 22 May 2007, lot 47. where purchased by the present owner.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

Sotheby's

January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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