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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. 

Nicola Verdura, Rome, by 1632;
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.


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Nicola Verdura, Rome, 1621 (inscribed "Raphael Vrbinus Inventor");

Giacomo Antonio Stefanoni, Rome, 1632 (inscribed "Raphael Vrbinus Inventor").

Parma, Reggia di Colorno; Naples, Castel Sant'Elmo, Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Giovanni Lanfranco, Un pittore barocco tra Parma, Roma e Napoli, 8 September 2001 - 16 June 2002, no. 22;
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2016-2021, on loan.