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Lorenzo Lippi
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Lorenzo Lippi
- saint john the evangelist
- oil on canvas, painted octagon, relined as a rectangle, framed as an oval
- 120 by 96 cm
Provenance
With Franz Goldmann, Vienna;
From whom acquired in 1819 by Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein (1760-1836).
From whom acquired in 1819 by Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein (1760-1836).
Literature
G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, Vienna 1866, p. 285;
J. Falke, Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1873, p. 51, cat. no. 423, as Guercino;
J. Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Vienna 1885, p. 25, cat. no. 162, as Guercino;
A. Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1931, p. 60, cat. no. 162, as Guercino;
C. Afflitto, Lorenzo Lippi, Florence 2002, p. 253, cat. no. 83, reproduced, as Lorenzo Lippi, where listed as oval, and whereabouts unknown.
Catalogue Note
Traditionally given to Guercino, the work was correctly reattributed to the Florentine Lorenzo Lippi in D'Afflitto's 2002 catalogue raisonné on the artist (see Literature). The work was originally only known through an old photograph. D'Afflitto compares the physiognomy of the Saint and voluminous folds of the cloak to another autograph work, The Samaritan Woman at the Well in the Kunsthistorisches Museum which is dated 1644. She proposes a similar dating for the present work and suggests that it could thus have been executed during the artist's sojourn at the Habsburg court in Innsbruck, possibly by order of Claudia de' Medici, widow of Leopold V, Archduke of Austria-Tyrol.