FOLLOWER OF BARTOLOMEO SCHEDONI, 18TH CENTURY | CUPID WITH A VASE; CUPID MUSING

Anonymous sale ('Property from an East Coast Educational Institution'), New York, Christie's, 20 October 1988, lots 51 and 52 (where sold separately, each as School of Bartolomeo Schedoni);

There acquired by a private collector, Bedford, Connecticut;

From whom acquired by the present collector, July 2010.

The putto holding a vase is a quote from the lower right corner of a painting of the Magdalene by Schedoni in a private collection, London.¹ The image of the reclining Cupid repeats the composition of a painting by Schedoni in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.²  

1. E. Negro and N. Roio, Bartolomeo Schedoni 1578-1615, 2000, p. 81, cat. no. 25, reproduced in color p. 56. 

2. ibid., pp. 94-95, reproduced.