Lot 86: Giovan Francesco Guerrieri (Fossombrone 1589-1655/9 Pesaro)

Vertumnus offering fruits to Pomona
oil on canvas
156.5 x 192.2 cm.

The Collection of the late Mr and Mrs Frans Dony-van Lanschot, The Hague (Lots 18-20, 30, 85 and 86)

We are grateful to Professor Riccardo Lattuada for proposing the attribution on the basis of a photograph. He relates the picture stylisticaly to the allegorical cycle painted by Guerrieri for the second salon of Palazzo Borghese, Rome, in 1617 and to the Hercules and Omphale formerly in the G.M.B. collection, Vignola (see A. Emiliani, Giovan Francesco Guerrieri da Fossombrone: Catalogo delle opere, Bologna, 1997, pp. 66-74, nos. 19-21; pp. 78-80, no. 26).

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