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CIRCLE OF PIETRO DA CORTONA | The Birth of the Virgin
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- The Birth of the Virgin
- oil on canvas
- 30 1/4 by 21 1/2 in.; 76.8 by 54.6 cm.
Catalogue Note
This painting is a reduced variant on a composition by Pietro da Cortona, of which there are at least five autograph versions. The prime version is generally regarded as the one commissioned for the Chiesa Nuova in Perugia and completed in 1643.1
1. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia (inv. no. 535), see G. Briganti Pietro da Cortona, Florence, 1982, p. 227, no. 86, reproduced figs. 212 and 213.
1. Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia (inv. no. 535), see G. Briganti Pietro da Cortona, Florence, 1982, p. 227, no. 86, reproduced figs. 212 and 213.