LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

canvas: 17 by 14 1/8 in.; 43.2 by 35.9 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

Attributed to Annibale Carracci

Condition:

framed: 25 1/4 by 22 3/8 in; 64.1 by 56.8 cm. To request a condition report for this lot, please contact Alison.MacQueen@sothebys.com.

Literature:

D. Benati and E. Riccòmini, Annibale Carracci, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2006, p. 118, under cat. no. II.13 (as of problematic authorship); D. Benati, "Sull’idea del ‘vero’ in Annibale Carracci," in Les Carracci, l'autre voie de la modernite?, Art Italies: Le Bulletin de l'association des historiens de l'art italien, no. 22, 2016, published papers of a study day held at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art on 27 October 2014, pp. 10-12, reproduced fig. 7 (as Annibale Carracci, circa 1588).

Provenance:

Marquis de Cuevas; With Mortimer Brandt, by 1973 until at least 1986; Anonymous sale, Towson, MD, Alex Copper Auctioneers, 18-19 May 2003, lot 373 (as Spanish School, 17th Century and revised to Italian School, possibly Annibale Carracci); There acquired.