Property from Abercairny, Perthshire
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Christ and the Samaritan Woman; Apollo and Daphne
Auction Closed
July 1, 07:41 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 1,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from Abercairny, Perthshire
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Tuscany 1652–1725 Florence
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Apollo and Daphne
marble, in later painted and gilt wood frames
65cm.; 25½ in., and 67cm., 26⅜ in. (inside frame)
77cm., 30¼ in., and 78cm., 30¾ in. (framed, overall)
(2)
Studio of Giovanni Battista Foggini, recorded in the artist's posthumous studio inventory, 1725;
Probably acquired by Colonel James Moray (1780-1840), Abercairny Abbey, Perthshire, circa 1815;
by descent in the Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray family, Abercairny, Perthshire
F. Savero Baldinucci, Vite di artisti dei secoli XVII-XVIII: prima edizione integrale del codice palatino 565, (Florence, circa 1725-1730), edited by A. Matteoli, Rome, 1975;
K. Lankheit, Florentinische Barockplastik, Munich 1962, pp. 237 [Baldinucci's Vita];
K. Albuquerque, Giovanni Battista Foggini et la sculpture à Florence à l’époque des derniers Médicis (1670-1737). La condition sociale de l’artiste et la pratique du dessin, unpublished PhD thesis, Paris EPHE, 2015, vol. II, doc. 3.3.4, p. 137
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