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58 - Bartolomeo PASSAROTTI (Bologna, 1529–1592)
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Estimate €40,000 - €60,000
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Bartolomeo PASSAROTTI (Bologna, 1529–1592) Portrait of a Writer Oil on canvas In a moulded and gilded wooden frame, a ‘cassetta’, decorated with faux marble and sgraffito, 17th-century Spanish work Portrait of a Writer, oil on canvas, by B. Passarotti 45.66 x 32.67 in. 116 x 83 cm Provenance: Dover Street Gallery, London, in 1999 Exhibitions: ‘Bologna and Ferrara: two centuries of Emilian painting’, New York, Dickinson Roundell, 1999, p. 89 Bibliography: Heinrich Bodmer, ‘Bartolomeo Passarotti: a Bolognese portrait painter of the sixteenth century’, *Il Comune di Bologna*, XXI, 1934, p. 22, fig. 15 (attributed to the Passarotti workshop) Corinna Höper, Bartolomeo Passarotti, 2 vols, Worms, 1987, p. 236 (attributed to the Passarotti workshop) Bartolomeo PASSAROTTI (Bologna, 1529–1592) 116 x 83 cm
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About the sale Old Masters & 19th-century masters
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Auction time 11/10/2026 at 4:00 PM
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