Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

09. April 2019, 3:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0019

Circle of Giovanni Battista Moroni

(Albino 1520/24 - 1578 ?)

„Portrait of Tomaso Bresani, protonotary apostolic and abbot in Bergamo“
1571
oil on canvas
80 x 65 cm
inscribed and dated on the lower left on the letter:
Al molto Magnifico te Benevolo ... / Tomaso Bresani Protonotario / Apostolico et Abbate dignissimo Bergamo / anno 1571 annorum 74

Provenance

private property, Switzerland

Certificate by Prof. Fiocco, Padua, 09th February 1964, as Giovanni Battista Moroni, is enclosed.
Oral statement of Dr. Rossi, Director of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, to the owner with an attribution to Gianbattista Moneta (born 1530 in Bergamo and student of Moroni).

Estimate: € 12.000 - 18.000
Result: € 16.640 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.