Painting in Florence in the mid-sixteenth century

Result EUR29,250

Published on 04 December 2025, by Philippe Dufour

Auction on 23 November 2025 - 14:00 (CET) - 32, place des Lices - 35000 Rennes

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Michele Tosini' s Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste (Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist), while Pierre-Jules Mène evoked hunting in the time of Louis XV.

Michele Tosini, dit Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1503-1577), Vierge à l’Enfant... Painting in Florence in the mid-sixteenth century

Michele Tosini, dit Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1503-1577), Vierge à l’Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste dans un paysage animé d’une ruine antique et d’une ville en arrière-plan, huile sur panneau de bois tendre, 68,5 x 57,2 cm.
Adjugé : 29 250 €

Michele Tosini is the author of this Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist in a landscape animated by an ancient ruin and a town in the background , a panel that sold for €29 ,250 (see Gazette no. 40 ). The gentle composition was created around the middle of the 16th century…

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32, place des Lices - 35000 Rennes

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