Sale at Dorotheum features works by Artemisia Gentileschi and her contemporaries
Nicolas Régnier (Maubeuge circa 15881667 Venice) Portrait of a nobleman, long bust-length, as Aeneas, holding a branch of golden laurel, oil on canvas, 70 x 56.5 cm, estimate 120,000 180,000.
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.- The Old Master Paintings sale on 8 June, which takes place within the framework of Dorotheums Classic Week, includes a selection of significant 17th century paintings by so-called Caravaggisti, artists drawn together as friends and colleagues by the influence of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Among them are Artemisia Gentileschi, Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, Domenico Fiasella and the Rome-based Frenchmen Simon Vouet and Nicolas Régnier.
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