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Putto playing with a…
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ISIDORO BIANCHI (Champion, 1581 - 1662)
Putto playing with a…
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Lot no. 86
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ISIDORO BIANCHI
(Champion, 1581 - 1662)
Putto playing with a veil
Oil on canvas, 69X86.5 cm
Provenance:
Gavnø Castle, Denmark, collection of Baron Otto Thott (1703-1785)
Copenhagen, Bruun-Rasmussen (1927)
London, private collection
London, Sotheby's, 3-9 December 2021, lot 161
Attributed to Isidoro Bianchi by Marco Tanzi in 2021, the painting is an interesting pictorial testimony to Bianchi. Until a few years ago, only the artist's activity in Turin was known, when he was engaged from 1617 onwards in decorating the vaults of the Galleria Grande in Palazzo Reale, an undertaking that could hardly have been entrusted to a beginner, thus suggesting an important previous activity. Bianchi was in fact quite precocious and the cycle of frescoes in the Cistercian monastery attached to the Abbey of Santa Maria dell'Acquafredda dates back to the years 1598-1601. Between 1605 and 1606 he is then documented at the court of Rudolph II in Prague and on his return we find him painting the chapel of the Madonna del Carmine in the church of Santo Stefano in Viggiù, then as a pupil and collaborator of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli. It was thanks to him that our artist was accepted to work in the Savoy yards and the work under examination is very expressive of Milanese culture, whose iconographic singularity is undoubted and can be compared to the Putti he painted for the Castello del Valentino at the beginning of the fourth decade.
Reference bibliography:
D. Pescarmona, Isidoro Bianchi di Campione 1581-1662, exhibition catalogue, Campione d'Italia 2003, ad vocem
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