Lot 21: PIETRO PAOLINI - (LUCCA 1603- 1681)

PIETRO PAOLINI
(LUCCA 1603- 1681)
The Cardsharps
oil on canvas 37 5/8 x 52 in. (95.4 x 132 cm.)

PROVENANCE:
(Possibly) Alvarez di Toledo collection, Naples, according to a partial
inscription on the reverse.
Conte Giacomo Lazzari, Naples, in whose posthumous 1843 inventory
it appears: ‘60. Da Caravaggio Michelangelo. Giocatori di carte, di palmi
quattro per cinque per traverso’, and by descent to
Irene Lazzari, Dionisio Lazzari, and Paolo Lazzari; (possibly) their sale,
Naples, 20 April-16 June 1850.
Private collection, Germany.
with Jean-Luc Baroni, London, 2011, no. 10, where acquired by the
present owner.