Lot 42: NICCOLÒ CANNICI | Young girl with turkeys

Oil on canvas

58 x 95,5 cm ; 22  3/4 by 37  9/16 in.

Oil on canvas

This work is in good condition and ready to hang. The canvas is unlined. Ultra-violet light reveals scattered strokes of retouching through the sky and near the upper part of the left and right edges. In the lower half of the composition the varnish fluoresces, making the surface difficult to read under U.V. light, however there do not appear to be notable retouchings in this area. Part of the date next to the signature is lightly rubbed.
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Pittori italiani dell'Ottocento nella raccolta di Enrico Checcucci di Firenze,  galleria Pesaro, Milano, mai 1929 reproduced pl. XXXVIII titled Guardianelladi tacchini.

Checcucci Collection, according to an old label on the reverse
Pesaro Gallery, Milan

Purchased by the grandfather of the present owners, probably from the above.