Lot 99: PHILIPPE-JACQUES VAN BREE | Gentile Bellini à la cour de Mahomet II

Huile avec rehauts d'or sur panneau

58,5 x 73,5 cm ; 23 by 29 3/4 in

Huile avec rehauts d'or sur panneau

Few retouches and repaints, especially in the curtain of the left door, on the wall hanging (particularly on the left and on the ropes), around the painter Bellini’s head, behind the signature, and few very small retouches on the face and the right hand of the lady, and some very small scattered on the composition ; overall good condition excepted the wall hanging.
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