Lot 47: Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (Seville 1640-?1695-8)

Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (Seville 1640-?1695-8)
Two young peasants in a landscape
oil on canvas
59 x 45 3/8 in. (150 x 115 cm.)

Princeton, Princeton University, The Art Museum, and Detroit, Institute of Arts, Painting in Spain from North American Collections, (catalogue by E.J. Sullivan, et al.), April-September 1982, no. 34, pp. 50 and 95, pl. 34 (entry by N.A. Mallory).

J.T. Spike, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Detroit, Painting in Spain...', The Burlington Magazine, CXXIV, no. 954, September 1982, p. 583, 'Villavicencio qualifies as the genuine 'discovery' of the exhibition. No. 34 [the present lot] displays a refined sensibility of expression reminiscent of Sweerts'.
R. González Ramos, Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, caballero pintor, Seville, 1999, p. 149, no. 23.

Private collection, Switzerland.

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Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio (Seville 1640-?1695-8)
Two young peasants in a landscape
oil on canvas
59 x 45 3/8 in. (150 x 115 cm.)