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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part I | 41 | $****** - ****** | Circe changing the Companions of Ulysses into Boars |
paintings
110.5 x 160 cm (43.5 x 62.99 in)
oil on canvas
with Matthiesen, London 1981.
Private collection, New York.
Genoa, Accademia Liguistica di Belle Arti, Il Genio di Giovanni Benedetto Castigline, il Grechetto, 27 January-1 April 1990, no. 28 (catalogue entry by Timothy Standring).
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