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Lot 23

FRANCESCO FONTEBASSO (Venice, 1707-1769)
Adoration of the Magi
oil on canvas
64.5 x 74.5cm (67.3 x 84cm framed)

Estimate $16,000 - $24,000

Sold for $22,000


Robert Compton Jones


We are grateful to Professor Bernard Aikema for endorsing the attribution to Fontebasso on the basis of photographs.

RELATED WORK:
Francesco Fontebasso, The Adoration of the Magi, oil on canvas, 78.7 x 91.8cm, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA (inv. 1985.18)

caption credit line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Frost Brothers Benefit and Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1985.18

Old Master Paintings from the Robert Compton Jones Collection

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8812
6:00pm - 8 December 2025
36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra

VIEWING
MELB: Friday 21 - Sunday 23 November (Highlights), 10am-4pm, 2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn, VIC

SYD: Friday 5 - Sunday 7 December, 10am-4pm, The Bond, 36-40 Queen St, Woollahra, NSW

CONTACT
Madeleine Mackenzie
sydney@leonardjoel.com.au


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