FRANCESCO LUPICINI | Allegory of Painting

Anonymous sale, Paris, Christie's, 15 December 2004, lot 519 (as circle of Lupicini).

S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei pittori fiorentini del '600 e '700, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 183;

F. Baldassari, La pittura del Seicento a Firenze. Indice degli artisti e delle loro opere, Turin 2009, p. 470 (as a workshop replica);

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento. Aggiornamento, Pontedera 2009, p. 126.

The composition is known in several other versions, the best probably that in the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina.¹ Filippo Gheri, whose written expertise endorsing the attribution to the artist accompanies the present lot, dates both the present and the Columbia versions to the latter part of the 1620s.

¹ See Bellesi 2009, vol. III, p. 58, reproduced fig. 934.