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Lot 6
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* Bartolomeo Passerotti Bologna 1529 - 1592

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Description

  • Bartolomeo Passerotti
  • The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, with two angels
  • oil on copper

Provenance

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, May 21, 1998, lot 222;
There purchased by the present collector.

Catalogue Note

The present painting is comparable to another small copper of The Adoration of the Magi which Gherardi attributes to Passerotti in her monograph (A. Gherardi, Bartolomeo Passerotti pittore (1529-1592), Rimini 1990, pp. 166-167, cat. no. 16, reproduced).  Gherardi dates that copper to circa 1572 or shortly after, further noting that it replicates a lost fresco by Federico Zuccaro in the Church of S. Eligio degli Orefici known through an engraving.

We are grateful to Dott. Angela Gherardi who, based on images, confirms the present painting to be by Passerotti and believes it to have been painted during the early part of his career.