Estimate

12.000 - 15.000

Session 2

15 October 2025

Hammer Price

Description

Oil on canvas

Depicting a lady in a blue dress trimmed with gold, white lace collar and pink mantle, holding a closed fan in her right hand and a brown lap dog in her left

Accompanied by a child in a blue coat

Framed by an architectural arch with a sculpture of a putto in the background

Italy (Lombardy), 18th century

111x82 cm

Additional Information

Note:

This work was previously attributed to Giacomo Ceruti (1698–1767), known as Il Pitocchetto, by Giuseppe Fiocco. Federico Zeri reclassified it as an anonymous work of the Lombard School of the 18th century.

Provenance:
Collection A. Geri, Milan

Auction Galleria Pesaro, Milan, 11 November 1931, lot 202

Auction Galleria d'Arte Geri, Milan, sale palazzo Mannati, 30 April-10 May 1934, lot 103/b

Private collection, Bergamo

E. Sestieri, Rome (recorded 1948-1949)

Auction Christie's, New York, 10 January 1980, lot 282