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Flemish or Italian school of the 17th century
Entourage of Denys CALVAERT
Oil on canvas
40 x 29,5 cm (52 x 43 cm with the frame)
Old label on the back ("N°9")
Beautiful 19th century frame in carved and gilded wood
Our painting seems both close to Venetian painting of the late sixteenth century in the range of colors and close to Flemish painting in the canon of characters and the characteristic composition both collected and balanced. One thinks of the Flemish artists who traveled to Northern Italy at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. A Presentation in the Temple by Denys Calvaert, very similar to our painting, was auctioned at Sotheby's in 1992. But an attribution is difficult because Denys Calvaert founded a famous school in Bologna from which many painters emerged, including Guido Réni, the Albanian, the Guerchino and the Dominiquin.
Ref: 7NWO28B9H2