Lot 179: *DANIELE CRESPI (1597-1630)

oil on copper This painting formerly bore an attribution to Melchiorre Gherardini but was recognised as a work by Daniele Crespi in 1993. Ward Neilson (see Literature below) dates this small copper - the only extant example in Crespi's oeuvre in this medium - to the artist's youthful period, circa 1623-25. Literature: N. Ward Neilson, Daniele Crespi, 1996, p. 65, cat. no. 80, illus. in color p. 106, pl. XIV A (as location unknown)