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Giuseppe Passeri (Rome 1654-1714)
Portrait of the artist, bust-length
oil on canvas, unlined
2578 x 1912 in. (65.8 x 49.6 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Pandolfini, Florence, 16 April 2014, lot 48.
Literature
F. Petrucci, Pittura di ritratto a Roma. Il Seicento, Rome, 2008, I, p. 706, fig. 576; II, p. 372, no. 1.
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Francesco Petrucci dates this self-portrait to circa 1685, when the artist was 30 years old (loc. cit.). In doing so, he places it chronologically between the first likeness captured by the artist of himself in 1675 (Florence, Uffizi Gallery) and his portait as an older man, attributed to Pier Leone Ghezzi (Rome, Accademia di San Luca), both of which exhibit a strikingly similar physiognomy in the size and shape of the eyes and mouth, the cleft of the chin and the upward turn of the nose. Passeri has portrayed himself in the black coat and white collar of the artist at work.
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