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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone
(Genoa 1686-1775 Scaria)
The Apotheosis of Hercules

Old Master Paintings

6 April 2017, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,250 inc. premium

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Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (Genoa 1686-1775 Scaria)

The Apotheosis of Hercules
oil on canvas, oval, with the corners made up
50.5 x 40.4cm (19 7/8 x 15 7/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Leo Spik, November 1964 (with a certificate from Professor Herman Voss)
With Lasson Gallery, London, 1965, where purchased by the present owner's family

The present work can be compared with a number of sketches and frescoes that Carlone painted in the early 1730s, when working for Prince Ludwig Eberhard of Württemberg and Wilhelm von Gravenitz. The figure group in the present painting follows the left group in the modello for the signed and dated 1730 frescoes in Gravenitz, now in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart (see: P. O. Kruckmann, Carlo Carlone 1686-1775. Der Ansbacher Auftrag, exh. cat., Landshut/Ergolding, 1990, no. 10, pp. 151-152, ill. figs. 149, 150). The female figure playing the trumpet to the left of the main group appears in almost the identical pose in the sketch for the fresco depicting the Glory of Prince Ludwig Eberhard, now in the Musei Civici del Castello Sforzesco, Milan (see: A. Barigozzi Brini and K. Garas, Carlo Innocenzo Carlone, Milan, 1967, pp. 62-63, ill. fig. 40).

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