Get a Mola Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Mola drawing.

For all your Mola artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Mola Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Mola painting or drawing.

If you want to sell your Mola painting or drawing use our selling services. We offer Mola selling help, selling advice, private treaty sales and full brokerage.

We have been authenticating Mola and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Mola experts and Mola certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Mola artworks.

Our Mola paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Mola certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Mola painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Mola paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Mola collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Pier Francesco Mola art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Pier Francesco Mola or we will sell it for you.

Pier Francesco Mola was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. Mola was born at Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland). At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, an architect. With the exception of the years 1633-40 and 1641-47, during which he resided in Venice and Bologna, respectively, he lived for the rest of his life in Rome.

His early training was with the late mannerist painter Cavalier D’Arpino, and he worked under the classicizing Francesco Albani. His masterpiece is the fresco in the gallery of Alexander VII in the Quirinal Palace Gallery, entitled Joseph making himself known to his Brethren (1657). He was elected Principe of the Accademia di San Luca, the Roman artists’ professional association, in 1662, but his last years were neither profitable nor prolific. One of his pupils was Antonio Gherardi.

With his looser style and handling, more naturalistic palette, and interest in exploring landscape elements, Mola rebelled against the prevailing, highly-theoretical classicism of such leading 17th-century Roman painters as Andrea Sacchi.

In February of 2007, a painting depicting an astronomer and identified as a lost work of Pier Francesco Mola was auctioned in California for $600,000. Some Mola works have sold for considerably higher prices.

Still wondering about a painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Francesco Mola.