Auction House

Auction: Old Master Paintings

20. June 2023, 2:00 pm

Object overview
Object

2103

Circle of Lorenzo Lotto

(Venedig 1490 - 1556 Loreto)

„Man holding a letter“
oil on canvas; framed
76.5 x 65.5 cm

Provenance

collection Wilhelm Ofenheim (1860-1932), Vienna;
private collection, Vienna

Literature

Bernard Berenson, Lorenzo Lotto, London 1955, p. 132, ill. 370 (as Lorenzo Lotto)
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places, London 1957, p. 106 (as Lorenzo Lotto)
Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, Lorenzo Lotto. Catalogo generale dei dipinti, Mailand 2021, p. 506, no. V.147 (in "Dipinti espunti")

The painting is documented in the archives of Bernhard Berenson as the work of Lorenzo Lotto (cf. Biblioteca Berenson, Fototeca, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies: Database no. olvwork620632).

Estimate: € 5.000 - 10.000
Result: € 7.040 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.