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Lot 71

Pietro Liberi
(Padua 1614-1687 Venice)
An Allegory of Peace unframed

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Pietro Liberi (Padua 1614-1687 Venice)

An Allegory of Peace
oil on canvas
110.7 x 135.7cm (43 9/16 x 53 7/16in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1993, lot 72 (as Marco Liberi)
Sale, Finarte, Milan, 16 May 2007, lot 32 (as Pietro Liberi, sold for EUR 170,000)

Literature
E. Martini, 'Due "battaglie" e altre opere di Pietro Liberi' in Arte Documento, vol. VIII, 1994, cat. no. 225
U. Ruggeri, Pietro e Marco Liberi: pittori nella Venezia del Seicento, Rimini, 1996, p. 167, cat. no. 118, ill.

An Allegory showing the figure of Peace protecting Man and Earth, the present painting is a mature work by Pietro Liberi. Its blonde tonality suggests a date of the mid 1660s, as suggested by Ugo Ruggeri in his catalogue entry for the painting. He goes on to describe the work as a splendida testimonianza of this moment in Liberi's career.

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