FRANS VERVLOET
(Mechelen 1795 - 1872 Venice)
Venice: A Side Chapel in the Church of San Sebastiano with a Cardinal at Prayer
Oil on canvas, unlined, on the original stretcher, 13 ⅛ x 10 in. (33.2 x 25.5 cm.)
Signed and dated ‘F. VERVLOET / 1842’ (lower centre)
Provenance
Prince Léon Kotchoubei Mikhailovitch (1862-1927; inscription on the reverse).
A preparatory drawing is in the Museo Correr, Venice (Inv. CI.III n.6829); that is inscribed ‘S. Sebasttano Venise’. A related composition was sold by Couturier-de Nicolay-Ogier-Dumont, Paris, 20 December 1994, lot 64, as Scene de Couvent.