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Francesco Solimena
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- Francesco Solimena
- christ at the house of simon the pharisee
- Black chalk, within black chalk framing lines
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1973, lot 275, reproduced
Catalogue Note
The present study is related, with differences, to a painting by Solimena of the same subject (fig. 1), datable on stylistic grounds to the 1720s.1 When the drawing first appeared on the London art market in 1973, it was wrongly believed to represent Christ at the feast of Cana, and associated with one of the series of six canvases, now destroyed, of New Testament miracles which were formerly in the Abbey of Montecassino.
1. Private Collection; sold, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2006, lot 229, reproduced