OTTAVIO LEONI, att. a (Rome 1578 - 1630) SELF-PORTRAIT... Lot 10

OTTAVIO LEONI, att. a (Rome 1578 - 1630) SELF-PORTRAIT WITH EARRING Oil on canvas, 37 x 28 cm. Gilded frame PROVENANCE Private Roman collection Known to experts and enthusiasts of seventeenth-century painting as the author mainly of drawings, his pictorial works are rather limited in number and mostly attributed The self-portrait presented here, with its partly playful yet at the same time cheeky pose, finds an interesting comparison with a back-to-back self-portrait, done in engraving and pencil, preserved in Florence, Biblioteca Marucelliana CONDITION REPORT Twentieth-century rintelo. Oxidized restoration on hair and shoulder in foreground. Accumulations of grease