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Pietro Testa - Aeneas And The Cumaean Sibyl Presenting The Golden Bough To Charon

Pietro Testa

Aeneas And The Cumaean Sibyl Presenting The Golden Bough To Charon

Found at Christies, London
Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale, Lot 31
8. Dec - 8. Dec 2015
Estimate: XX.XXX
Price realised: XX.XXX
oil on canvas
62 ¼ x 81 1/8 in. (158.1 x 206.2 cm.)
(Probably) Hyacinthe-Hugues-Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, duc de Cossé, comte de l'Empire (1746-1813), at his hôtel particulier, rue du Pot-de-Fer 8, Paris; (†), Delalande and Metzinger, on the premises, 9 December 1813, lot 14, as ‘Teste (Pietre)’, ‘La Descente d'Enée aux Enfers, représentée à l'instant où ce héros, accompagné de la Sibylle, se dispose à passer l'Achéron. Tableau exécuté avec la facilité qui caractérise les ouvrages de ce maître’, on canvas, 60 x 76 pou

Upper estimate price exceeded by 49 %.

The work Aeneas And The Cumaean Sibyl Presenting The Golden Bough To Charon by Pietro Testa was auctioned at Christies in London in December 2015. It achieved a price of GBP 746,500.00 (€ 1,013,711.12), exceeding the upper end of the estimate range by 49%. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Pietro Testa - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Aeneas On The Bank Of The River Styx, which sold at auction in February 2013 for USD 2,994,500.00 (€ 2,289,548.13).

Oberer Schätzpreis um 49 % übertroffen

Die Arbeit Aeneas And The Cumaean Sibyl Presenting The Golden Bough To Charon von Pietro Testa kam im Dezember 2015 bei Christies in London zur Auktion. Sie erzielte dabei einen Preis von GBP 746.500,00 (€ 1.013.711,12) und übertraf damit das obere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne um 49%. Für andere Arbeiten von Pietro Testa mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Aeneas On The Bank Of The River Styx beobachtet, die im Februar 2013 für USD 2.994.500,00 (€ 2.289.548,13) versteigert wurde.

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