Studio of Carlo Dolci (Florence 1616-1686)


The Archangel Gabriel oil on canvas, octagonal32.5 x 26.3cm (12 13/16 x 10 3/8in).unframed
|ProvenanceThe Marchesi de Mari, Genoa and thence by descent through the family until 1884Sale, Sotheby's, Olympia, 5 December 2006, lot 444 (as property from a private collection, whose relatives acquired from the above in 1884)The present work once hung with two late autograph works by Carlo Dolci, of similar dimensions, which were offered for sale at Sotheby's London, 6 December 2006, lot 38. It is likely that the present work was produced in Dolci's workshop as a pendant to the other pair.