Master to Master: The Nelson Shanks Collection
Master to Master: The Nelson Shanks Collection
Giovanni Lanfranco
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Auction Closed
January 27, 08:24 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Lanfranco
Parma 1582 - 1647 Rome
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on copper
copper: 16 1/2 by 12 3/8 in.; 41.9 by 31.4 cm.
framed: 23 3/4 by 19 3/4 in.; 60.3 by 50.2 cm.
Private collection, United Kingdom, until 1995;
Anonymous sale, ("Property of a Lady of Title") London, Christie's, 8 December 1995, lot 99 (where incorrectly dated 1606-1607);
There acquired.
A. Weston-Lewis, in Raphael, The Pursuit ofPerfection, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh 1994, pp. 92-93, 142, under cat. no. 43, notes 2 and 5;
E. Schleier, "Lanfranco: L'anno 1614," in Ricerche sul '600 napoletano. Scritti in memoria di Raffaello Causa. Saggi e documenti per la storia dell'arte, 1994-1995, 1996, p. 233, reproduced fig. 2;
A.E. Denunzio, "Una nota di pagamento per Guido Reni e qualche aggiunto per Domenichino, Carlo Saraceni e Lanfranco al servizio del Cardinale Odoardo Farnese," in Aurea Parma, September - December 2000, pp. 383-384;
E. Schleier, Giovanni Lanfranco, Un pittore barocco tra Parma, Roma e Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2001, p. 142, cat. no. 22, reproduced in color p. 143.
ENGRAVED
Nicola Verdura, Rome, 1621 (inscribed "Raphael Vrbinus Inventor");
Giacomo Antonio Stefanoni, Rome, 1632 (inscribed "Raphael Vrbinus Inventor").