ATTRIBUTED TO PAOLO CALIARI (CALLED PAOLO VERONESE), VERONA,...

Estimate

£3,000 - £5,000

ATTRIBUTED TO PAOLO CALIARI (CALLED PAOLO VERONESE), VERONA, 1528 - 1588, VENICE, 16TH CENTURY OIL ON CANVAS
Portrait of a Venetian lady Caterina Vannini, 1571 - 1644, Italian musician and Dominican nun wearing fur coat with white ruff collar with a jewelled headdress, held in original carved giltwood frame, re-lined.

Sight 60cm x 76.5cm
Frame 83cm x 100cm

Provenance: The Rt. Hon. Lord Mildmay of Flete removed from 46 Berkeley Square, W.1
His sale , Christie’s London 31st July 1947, lot 63 . Wrongly identified as Italian School Portrait of Avicia, Wife of Sir Thomas Mildmay

Provenance: private collection, purchased from the above sale 1947.

N.B. An existing portrait of the same sitter is identified as Caterina Vannini (1571–1644) in the museum of the Contrada della Tartuca in Siena, which is a late copy dated 1775. which is believed to be based on an original work by Paolo Veronese.

Lord Mildmay of Flete was a notable British collector who owned several significant works. Many of the paintings were housed at the family's estate, before being dispersed through major auctions in the mid 20th Century.