Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Lombard School, 17th century
The Baptism of Christ
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Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Lombard School, 17th century
The Baptism of Christ
oil on canvas
unframed: 178 x 116 cm.; 70⅞ x 45⅝ in.
framed: 191 x 128.5 cm.; 75¼ x 50⅝ in.
The figures of Christ and Saint John the Baptist derive from a composition of the same subject by Cesare da Sesto (1477–1523).1 First recorded by Vasari in 1568, Sesto's large-scale panel was displayed in the Palazzo della Zecca di Milano before it appears in the collection of Mr Prospero Visconti (1543/4–1592) in 1584, and the Gallarati Scotti family, Milan, in 1674, where it is still held today.2
1 Oil on panel, 198 x 262 cm. M. Carminati, Cesare da Sesto, Rome 1994, pp. 170–3, no. 9, reproduced in colour pp. 172–3.
2 Carminati, 1994, p. 170.
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