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Master of the Fertility of the Egg active 17th and 18th century
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- The Master of the Fertility of the Egg
- The Cage of the Foolish; The Luck of the Foolish
- one inscribed Son Capporal Dei Matti Ch osseruo beni patti (I am corporal of the fools that well observes the rules); the second inscribed Assai Ben Balla A chi fortuna Suona (He dances well enough who fortune plays for)
- a pair, both oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Milan, Sotheby's, May 27 1985, lot 513 (as Circle of Bocchi).
Catalogue Note
Mariolina Olivera, in her 1990 monograph Faustino Bocchi e l'arte di figurar pigmei, was the first to isolate a group of works by this master, Maestro dell Fertilità dell' Uovo, which she grouped around his eponymous work, entitled La fertilità dell' Uovo (The Fertility of the Egg) in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum. When the present works were sold at auction in Milan (see Provenance), they had further inscriptions that have subsequently been covered over.