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Guido Cagnacci
Description
- Guido Cagnacci
- Ecce homo
- oil on canvas, framed as an oval, in an elaborate carved and gilt wood Emilian 17th-century frame
Provenance
With Charles Nicholls & Sons (according to a label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Prof. Pier Giorgio Pasini believes that this work dates from the 1630s or '40s due to its stylistic affinity with Cagnacci's Saint Agatha, currently in a private collection, and the Penitent Magdalene in the church of Santa Maria Maddalena delle Benedettine in Urbania.1 Both Agatha and the Magdalene have their heads tilted heavenward in a similar manner to the figure of Christ in the present painting. Pasini suggests that this Ecce homo was painted during Cagnacci's final Bolognese period, during which time he was influenced by the sentimentality of Guido Reni.
1. See D. Benati and M. B. Castellotti, Guido Cagnacci, Milan 1993, p. 97, cat. no. 14, and p. 101, cat. no. 15.