Lot 541
  • 541

Attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari

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Description

  • Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • inscribed on the revserse of the frame: Carlo Marratta, and brushed on the reverse with an old inventory number: no22
  • oil on copper, in an English carved and gilt wood frame

Provenance

Possibly acquired in Italy in 1700-02 by Martin Bowes, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk;
Thence by inheritance to Sir George Broke-Middleton, 3rd Bt. (1812-87), Broke Hall and Shrublands, Suffolk;
Thence by inheritance to Jane Anne Acton Vere Broke, who married in 1882
James St. Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez (1843-1937);
Thence by descent.

Catalogue Note

For the presumed early provenance see note to preceding lot.