24 March 2021

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (attributed). A Shepherdess playing the Flute, ca. 1720 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 95 x 77 cm (possibly reduced). Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, December 2017. The modern looking composition is due to a restoration. The work is thought to have been part of a larger canvas, as the roughly cut right-hand edge would suggest. Great ear.

More > Giuseppe Maria Crespi at Wikipedia.