Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures

Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures

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Francesco Trevisani

The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Lot Closed

April 28, 02:37 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Francesco Trevisani

Capodistria (Cape of Istra, Slovenia) 1656 - 1746 Rome

The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist


oil on canvas

unframed: 97 x 74.5 cm.; 38¼ x 29¼ in.

framed: 113.6 x 91.7 cm.; 44¾ x 36⅛ in.

Antoine Louis Joseph Loques (b. 1783), supervisor of the silverware of His Imperial Highness Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy from 1805–14;
Thence by family descent until sold, Paris, Drouot-Richelieu, 6 December 2019, lot 35, where acquired (as Trevisani and workshop, before cleaning);
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 December 2020, lot 169, where withdrawn.

An autograph version of the signed and dated canvas painted by Trevisani in 1708, today in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden (inv. no. Gal.-Nr. 448).1


We are grateful to Dr Erich Schleier for endorsing the attribution to Trevisani based on high resolution images.


1 https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/415030