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Florentine Painter Giovanni Capassini Returns to the Auction Room

Published on , by Claire Papon
Auction on 09 October 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 16 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

This double-sided triptych by Giovanni Capassini is one of the very few works by the Florentine painter to appear at auction – over the past fifteen years, they could be counted on the fingers of one hand…

Giovanni Capassini (1510-1579), The Annunciation: Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, forming... Florentine Painter Giovanni Capassini Returns to the Auction Room

Giovanni Capassini (1510-1579), The Annunciation: Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, forming part of a pair of double-sided panels with Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, formerly paired as a diptych, 88 x 38 cm.
Estimate: €30,000/40,000

So this seems a very modest estimate for a pair of double-sided panels, formerly paired as a diptych. Although we do not know who commissioned it, this representation of Gudula and Michael suggests…
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Friday 09 October 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Live
Salle 16 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
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