Ottavio LEONI (Rome, 1578-1630) - Lot 30

Lot n° 30
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Ottavio LEONI (Rome, 1578-1630) - Lot 30
Ottavio LEONI (Rome, 1578-1630) Portrait of Donna Margherita Sanseverino, née Taviglia d'Aragona (? - 1642) Black stone and white highlights on gray paper 20.4 x 15.3 cm Dated lower left and center i35/aprile/1619 Annotated on verso Pimpa Saponara Provenance : Claude Vittet, Paris, in 2017. Bibliography: Y. Primarosa, Ottavio Leoni (1578 - 1630), eccelente miniator di ritratto - catalogo ragionata dei disegni e dei dipinti, Rome, 2017, no. 2, reproduced p. 656. Margherita Taviglia d'Aragona, daughter of Carlo Taviglia prince of Castelvetrano, married Luigi Sanseverino, VII prince of Bisignano, in 1607. Pimpa Saponara refers to another of her husband's many titles, also Count of Saponara. Leoni painted a second portrait of the same model in 1620 (see Op. cit. above).
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