Lotto 3247 - A184 Dipinti del XIX secolo - venerdì, 23. marzo 2018, 17h00
WILLIAM ETTY
- Presumably commissioned directly from the artist and in the same family estate by descent.
- Swiss private collection.
Exhibited:
Probably Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1835, No. 36 ('Study of the head of a youth’).
Literature:
Gilchrist, Alexander: Life of William Etty, R.A., vol. 2, London 1855, p. 22-23 ('a Head of a Boy’).
We are grateful to Richard Green for his support in cataloguing the present painting on the basis of a photograph. For Richard Green, there is no doubt that this portrait of a boy is a work by the hand of William Etty.
CHF 3 000 / 4 000 | (€ 3 090 / 4 120)
Venduto per CHF 12 500 (incl. premio dell'acquirente)
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