Attributed to Bartolomeo Carducci, called Carducho

Bob Jones University Art Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina, by 1968;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 8 January 1981, lot 63;
There acquired by the present owners.

B.A. Jones, The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Paintings. Supplement to the Catalogue of the Art Collection: Paintings Acquired 1963-1968, Greenville, S.C. 1968, p. 88, reproduced;
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, p. 45 and p. 583.

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in very good condition. There is craquelure throughout the work. There are some pin sized losses in the upper right corner. Under UV; heavy masking varnish, scattered inpainting on top of the varnish throughout the work.
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