Sebastiano Ricci

Possibly James Roche (1770–1853), Cork;

Presumably his sale, Cork, William West, 16 October 1820, lot 56 (as Guercino, 'The Return from Egypt');

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 2 December 1983, lot 68;

Where acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

Private collection, Australia;

Whence acquired in 1987;

By descent to the present owner. 

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, on long-term loan, 1999–2024.

F. Russell, ‘Another Ricci; and a new conversation piece by Smuglevicz’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXX, no. 904, July 1978, p. 466, reproduced fig. 32;

A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Milan 2006, p. 208, no. 186, reproduced fig. 381.