Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato
Madonna at Prayer
Auction Closed
May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato
Sassoferrato 1609 - 1685 Rome
Madonna at Prayer
oil on canvas
canvas: 20 by 15 ½ in.; 50.8 by 39.4 cm
framed: 32 by 24 ½ in.; 81.3 by 62.2 cm
Probably anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 2 May 1874, lot 87;
Probably where acquired by "Colnaghi," for £52-10s.;
G. Jacobson (according to a label on the verso);
From whom acquired, through Martin Henry Colnaghi (1821-1908), by Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett (1852-1903), Thorpe Place, Chertsey, December 1880 (according to a label on the verso);
Thence by descent (though moved from Thorpe Place after its sale in the 1920s or 1930s) until anonymously sold (“The Property of a Gentleman”), London, Sotheby’s, 5 July 2012, lot 257;
Where acquired by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025.
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