Nov 03, 2021 - Sale 2586

Sale 2586 - Lot 549

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
SIMONE CANTARINI
(Pesaro 1612-1648 Mantua)
Portrait of Guido Reni.

Red and black chalk on cream laid paper. 230x178 mm; 9x7 inches. Inscribed "da Pesaro" in ink, lower right recto.

Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts.

Mario di Giampaolo confirmed the attribution of this portrait drawing of the artist Guido Reni to Cantarini, in a letter from August 2001 which accompanies this lot. Cantarini's oil portrait of Reni is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.