Italian school after Francesco MAZZOLA called... Lot 30

Italian school after Francesco MAZZOLA called the PARMESAN (1503-1540) Love cutting his bow Oil on canvas Old restorations Size : 140 X 103 cm Our painting is a copy of the famous painting painted around 1533, described by Vasari and kept in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (inv.-Nr.GG_275). Several other copies are kept in public collections: - Paris, Musée du Louvre, MG 497, Dim : 42 X 30 cm. - Nantes, Museum of Arts, Inv 2810, Dim 69 X 51 cm. - Besançon, Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, Inv 885.13.1, Dim : 125 X 63 cm - Museum of Grenoble, Inv M.G. 497, Dim : 40 X 27 cm - Bourg-en-Bresse, Museum of Brou, Inv. 902.1, Dim : 138 X 105 cm It is difficult to date the work precisely after the restorations, but the pictorial layer presenting a fine network of homogeneous micro-craquelures reinforces the hypothesis of an ancient work. Our painting is similar in size to the one in the Brou Museum. Cabinet Artemis Estimations, M. Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert of justice near the Court of Appeal of Amiens, 06.09.83.33.29, www.artemisestimations.com.