Francesco Hayez

Italian | 1791 - 1882

Francesco Hayez was an Italian 19th Century painter who was born in 1791. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto have featured Francesco Hayez's work in the past.Francesco Hayez's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 24 USD to 1,890,992 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,890,992 USD for Bathsheba, sold at Christie's London in 2024. Francesco Hayez has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for World Art News in December 2024. The artist died in 1882.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Portrait of Elisabetha Bassi Charl茅 - Francesco Hayez

Portrait of Elisabetha Bassi Charlé

By Francesco Hayez

Ritratto delle signore Carolina Grassi e Bianca Bignami, sorelle Gabrini, 1835.

By Francesco Hayez

+28%

above mid-estimate

Maria Stuarda condotta al supplizio

By Francesco Hayez

+220%

above mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

Oval portrait of two girls

Attributed to Francesco Hayez

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Bathsheba

By Francesco Hayez

+113%

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Portrait du comte Francesco Borgia (1794-1861) - Francesco Hayez

Portrait du comte Francesco Borgia (1794-1861) ,1825

By Francesco Hayez

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Current Exhibitions

Biedermeier: The Rise of an Era

Leopold Museum

Vienna | Austria

Apr 10,2025 - Jul 27,2025

Past Exhibitions

Hayez: The Romantic Painter鈥檚 Workshop

GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin

Torino | Italy

Oct 17,2023 - Apr 01,2024

The man without quality

MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto

Rovereto | Italy

Oct 26,2023 - Mar 03,2024

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Articles

ArtDaily 21/04/2025

The Leopold Museum is dedicating a large-scale spring exhibition to the fascinating era of the Biedermeier, which lasted from the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 to the bourgeois revolutions of 1848.

World Art News 16/12/2024

A masterpiece by the celebrated 19th-century Italian painter Francesco Hayez has shattered expectations at Christie鈥檚 Old Masters Evening Sale in London, setting a new world auction record for the artist.

The Art Newspaper 05/12/2024

Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's.

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Coverage

鈥� ..While similar in the setting, in which Hayez widens the scene conferring more solemnity, they differ in the posture and in the clothes of the characters, in the rendering of the light and the colours... 鈥�
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Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano