Carlo Orsi - Trinity Fine Art sells Baroque masterpiece by Foggini
(Artdaily.org)

The highlight sale at TEFAF Maastricht 2019 for Carlo Orsi – Trinity Fine Art was the magnificent marble portrait bust portraying Marguerite Louise of Orléans, wife of Cosimo III de’ Medici, created in 1687. Marguerite Louise was a free-spirited woman and the enfant terrible of the Medici dynasty, who eventually obtained a separation and returned to France , where she lived as she pleased, bringing even her cousin King Louis XIV to despair at her outrageous behaviour. Carlo Orsi confirmed the sale to a new private European client for a seven-figure sum after it received substantial interest from collectors and museums world-wide. In the run up to TEFAF Maastricht several fresh discoveries had been made, including previously unpublished documents clarifying that the bust was commissioned by the Medici, that it is a fully autograph work by Giovanni