Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Giovanni Lanfranco

Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness

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January 30, 04:24 PM GMT

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200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Giovanni Lanfranco

Parma 1582 - 1647 Rome

Saint John the Baptist in the wilderness


oil on canvas

canvas: 70 1/2 by 47 1/2 in.; 179 by 120.6 cm.

framed: 78 ¼ by 55 1/2 in.; 198.8 by 141 cm.

With Galleria Francesco Romano, Rome, early 1960s (as Lanfranco);
Anonymous sale, Rome, Antonio Gelardini, 9 – 26 March 1964, lot 1218 (as Lanfranco); 
There purchased by Count Scribani Rossi, Rome; 
From whom acquired by Galleria Claudio Gasparrini, Rome, by 1980 (as Lanfranco); 
Private collection, Sydney, Australia, by 1994 or earlier.
E. Schleier, Die roemische Zeit Giovanni Lanfrancos (1602 – 1634), unpublished doctoral dissertation, Hamburg University 1966, pp. 1559 – 1561, U2 (doubts attribution to Lanfranco); 
F. D’Amico, "Appunti su Giovanni Lanfranco", in: Annuario dell’ Istituto di Storia dell’ Arte Anno Accademico 1974/75–1975/76, Rome 1977, p. 195, note 3, reproduced fig. 8 (as Lanfranco);
M. Pirondini, "Sisto Badalocchio", in: La Scuola dei Carracci. I seguaci di Annibale e Agostino, ed. by M.  Pirondini and E. Negro, Modena 1995, p. 95, reproduced fig. 123 (as Sisto Badalocchio);
E. Schleier, "Note su Carlo Bononi e su Giovanni Lanfranco", in: Antichita Viva, XXXV, no. 1, 1996, p. 14 (as  Lanfranco); 
G. Berti, in: Sisto Badalocchio, ed. by M. Pirondini, Manerba 2004, p. 149, no. 71, reproduced in color, plate XXXV (as Sisto Badalocchio);
E. Schleier, "Il San Giovanni Battista del Chazen Museum of Art at Madison, Storia e fortuna critica di un  quadro", in: dal Razionalismo al Rinascimento, per I quaranta anni di studi di Silvia Danesi Squarzina, ed. by M.  Giulia Aurigemma, Rome 2011, pp. 260 – 262, reproduced fig. 4 (as Lanfranco).