- 88
Roman School, 18th Century
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Description
- Saint Bartholomew
- oil on canvas, unframed
Provenance
Général Count de Miollis, by whom acquired in Rome whilst Governor (according to an old label on the reverse).
Catalogue Note
Général Sextius Alexandre François, Count de Miollis (1759-1828) led Napoleon’s occupying army into Rome on the 2nd February 1808. He was Governor for his first term from 1808-9, and for the second term from 1811-1814. At the beginning of his second term he acquired the Villa Aldobrandini as his residence.
The painting has a traditional attribution to Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647).