Greenland Art Review

© 2010

Publiceret af S.E.Hendriksen

Sofonisba Anguissola at the Easel

Kier sale Sotheby's 1963

With the ’fakers’ signature

The Canadian self portrait - authenticated by Prof. Flavio Caroli

(Transfer from panel to panel)

The Leonard Koetser exhibition 1964

With out the signature and changed in details

W. Braillie engraving 1763 and 1785

With the Cremona/Lombard architecture

Woodprint Engraving (London) c. 1750

With the Cremona/Lombard architecture

               ”Orazio Vecellio painting Sofonisba Anguissola” by Sofonisba and Orazio, 1559

 

Painted in Milan 1559 with the red dress, overpainted in Madrid 1576 (death of Orazio) with black colour and after the Siena cleaning in 2006 back to the original colour of her dress.  Sofonisba and Orazio painted each other portrait and Orazio finished the mainpart. The painting always had a Venezian flair and was attributed to Tintoretto or Veronese before Morelli identified the female face as Sofonisba and he supposed the male partner was her teacher Bernadino Campi. 

 

Now ”Orazio painting Sofonisba Anguissola” actually shout Venice and for at least one good reason.

Orazio and Titian Vecellio

Sofonisba Anguissola at the Easel c. 1550

The only selfportrait  Sofonisba painted at the Easel… to many ’fakes’ around

The Canadian version has only small brushes.

Braillie’s engravings also shows small brushes.

 

All other versions of Sofonisba at the Easel has a big and a medium brush and a painting knife.