ITALIAN PAINTER, XIX CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A... Lot 18

ITALIAN PAINTER, XIX CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A MAN, BY ANTONELLO DA MESSINA Oil on panel, 38 x 29.5 cm. PROVENANCE Campania private collection The valuable painting, of high pictorial quality, takes up with variations, the series of portraits made by Antonello da Messina in the years corresponding to his Venetian sojourn in 1475/1476. The man depicted in the small walnut panel, wears, as in the portraits in the Borghese Gallery in Rome and Palazzo Madama in Turin, a red robe and a black berretta, typical garments of Venetian patricians of the time CONDITION REPORT Walnut board, parqueted. Small spots of restoration evident in the background around the face. A horizontal restoration line on the ear and a spot on the chin