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Mattia Preti

Study of a Male Nude

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Mattia Preti

Taverna 1613 – 1699 Malta

Study of a Male Nude


oil on paper, laid down on canvas

17 ½ by 20 ¾ in.;

44.5 by 52.7 cm

Possibly Adrien Manglard (1695-1760), Rome;

Possibly thence by inheritence to his brother, Pierre Manglard, Paris;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 25 January 2012, lot 36;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Possibly O. Michel, "Adrien Manglard, peintre et collectionneur (1695-1760)," in Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome: Moyen-Age, Temps moderns 93, no. 2 (1981), p. 903;

N. Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli. Da Mattia Preti a Luca Giordano. Natura in posa, vol. II, Naples 2011, p. 202, cat. no. 145, reproduced.

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