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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Spring Auction Series
• Sale Date:
  16 Nov 2015 ~ Session 1: 10.30am (Lots 1 - 114)
  16 Nov 2015 ~ Session 2: 2pm (Lots 115 - 390)
• Lot #:
  256
• Lot Description:
  Attributed To Carletto Caliari
  (Italian, 1570-1596)
  La Circoncision
  oil on canvas
  183 x 160cm
• Provenance:
  The collection of Maurice and Jeanne Rey, Italy, 1932; Thence by descent, the property of Mrs. Jean Antonelli until her death in 1991; Acquired by the current owner Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1st December, 1997, lot 20
• Notes:
  Carlo Cannovaro Caliari (1570-1596) was an Italian artist of the Renaissance period. He is also known as Carletto. The youngest son of Paolo Veronese, Caliari was active mainly in Venice, where he worked and inherited the studio of his far more famous father, and later worked along with his uncle, Benedetto. His name is attached to several large pictures of banquets in Veronese's style. As the most talented member of his father's workshop, he undoubtedly executed many works that are attributed to his father. Works that have been clearly isolated as Carlo's own are more precise and delicate, both technically and in the physical types; they lack Veronese's bravura, whether in the line and wash of a chiaroscuro drawing or in the richly layered pigments that make an embroidered drape. His early signed works show the influence of both his father and the Bassano family by whom he was trained. In the present work Caliari has taken the colours and the composition of the work of his father as in The Presentation in the Temple. (See the collection of R. Matthew Pryor Marlborough, London; T. Pignatti and F. Pedrocco, Veronese, volume II, Milan, 1995, fig. 272, reproduced p. 385) The work further combines the narrative detail and naturalistic style of Bassano including his use of religious themes in everyday life. The composition of the figures surrounding the Virgin and Child, the monumental architecture and the faces of several characters are reminiscent of the painting of the Nativity in the Church of San Afra of Brescia and The Adoration of the Shepherds of the Academy of Venice; (see Crosato L.Larcher, 'Carletto Caliari Per' in Arte Veneta, XXI, 1967, pp. 112-113, reproduced fig. 124 and 125)
• Estimate:
  A$40,000 - 60,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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