18TH-CENTURY PAINTER

18TH-CENTURY PAINTER Portrait of Count Ottavio Bonaventura Tonso, 1701 Oil on canvas, 76x63 cm; signed “Bonaventura e Tonso 1701”; unframed. In the archives of the Compagnia di San Paolo, a lawyer named Giacomo Ottavio Bonaventura Tonso is frequently mentioned in the early 18th century. Archival documents and city council minutes (the so-called *Ordinati*) show that Giacomo Ottavio Bonaventura Tonso was active in the Turin administration around 1710–1714. During those years, he held the of

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H 76 × B 63 cm