334. The Birth of Jesus

1687, Veneția, Italia - 1767, Veneția, Italia

Estimate

EUR 12.000 - 18.000

Sold

EUR 20.000

Session

Tue, 5 February 2019 20:30

References

Catalogul galeriei de artă universală, Muzeul de Artă al Republicii Socialiste România, Vol. 1, București, 1974-1975.

Dimensions

width 48.5 cm, height 41.5 cm, custom 48,5x41,5

Description

oil on canvas

Research information

The work is classified as belonging in the Treasury category of the Movable Cultural National Heritage, by order no 2510 from 24.01.2003 of the Minister of Culture. The painting was included in the permanent exhibition of the European Art Gallery of the National Museum of Art of Romania between 1977 and 1989. Inventory no 3426/157 the Museum of Art of Romania.

PROVENANCE

30s-50s, the collection of Romanian diplomat Basil Stoica (1889 - 1959), close friend of Thomas Masaryk and Ionel I.C. Brătianu, skilled in 14 foreign languages, a fighter for the founding and consecration of the Greater Romania, president of the National League of Romanians in America in 1918, minister plenipotentiary in Bulgaria and Albania (1930-1936), the Netherlands (1937-1939), Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1939-1945), negotiator for the cause of Romania as a co-belligerent country at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; deceased at Jilava after 9 years of detention; removed from the possession of the diplomat's family by the National Museum of Art of Romania through confiscation in 1977; in 2009, after the fall of the communist regime, following a long line of trials, restored to the diplomat's heirs.

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