Lot 3010* - A210 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi, 20. septembre 2024, 14h00
PIETRO LIBERI
(Padua 1614–1687 Venice)
Venus with putti.
Oil on canvas.
86.5 × 103.5 cm.
Provenance:
- With Nicolaas Beets (1878–1963), Amsterdam.
- Sold to Alois Miedl (co-owner of the 'Aryanised' art gallery J. Goudstikker, N.V., inv.-no. 6041), Amsterdam, 30.9.1940.
- Acquired by Heinrich Hoffmann for the Führermuseum in Linz (Linz no. 2964), 1943.
- Central Collecting Point Munich (Mü. no. 8870).
- Restituted to the Netherlands in 1946.
- Sale Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 20.11.1951, Lot 30 (as Italian school, 17th century).
- Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired at the above auction.
- Sale Dorotheum, Vienna, 11.5.2022, Lot 92.
- European collection.
Our thanks to Prof. Bernard Aikema for confirming the authenticity of this work, having examined it in the original.
CHF 30 000 / 50 000 | (€ 30 930 / 51 550)