LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Measurements:
31.02 in. (78.80 cm.) (height) by 24.69 in. (62.70 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May-12 September 2010, no. 39.
Literature:
(Possibly) M. Oretti, Marcello Oretti e il patrimonio artistico private bolognese: Bologna Biblioteca Comunale, MS. B.104, E. Calbi and D. Scaglietti Kelescian, eds., Bologna, 1984, p. 66, as Ludovico Carracci. (Possibly) Descrizione italiana e francese di tutto ciò che si contiene nella Galleria del Sig. Marchese Senatore Luigi Sampieri, Bologna, 1795, as Ludovico Carracci. (Possibly) G. Gatti, Descrizione delle più rare cose di bologna, e suoi subborghi, Bologna, 1803, p. 169, as Ludovico Carracci. R. L. Feigen & Co., Seven Highly Important Pictures, New York, 1988, no. 3. D. Benati, 'Dipinti sugli altari,' A. Benati and D. Benati, eds., La Parrocchia di Sassomolare, Quaderni del Circolo Culturale Castel d'Aiano, XIII, Castel d'Aiano, 1998, pp. 76-77. D. Benati, 'L'oratorio di San Rocco: Il ruolo di Reggio nella prima attività di Annibale Carracci', Il seicento a Reggio: La storia, la città, gli artisti, P. Ceschi Lavagetto, ed., Reggio, 1999, p. 54. D. Benati, D. DeGrazia and G. Feigenbaum, eds., The Drawings of Annibale Carracci, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1999, p. 46. D. Benati and C. Bernardini, I dipinti della Pinacoteca Civica di Budrio, Bologna, 2005, p. 192. D. Benati and E. Riccòmini, eds., Annibale Carracci, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2006, p. 186, no. 4.1 (cat. by A. Brogi). A. Weston-Lewis, 'The Annibale Carracci Exhibition in Bologna and Rome', Burlington Magazine, CXLIX, 2007, p. 259.
Provenance:
Sampieri collection, Bologna, possibly by the 1760s, from where acquired by Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798). Francis Basset (1757-1835), 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset, Tehidy, near Cambourne, Cornwall; Christie's, London, 8 May 1824, lot 41, as Ludovico Carracci (bought in), and by descent to his daughter, Frances Basset (1751-1855), 2nd Baroness Basset, by descent to the son of her cousin, John Francis Basset (1831-1869), by descent to Arthur Francis Basset (b. 1873), Tehidy near Cambourne, Cornwall; Christie's, London, 9 January 1920, lot 88, as Ludovico Carracci (12 gns. to Everitt). Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 8 December 1987, lot 69, as Sisto Badalocchio, where acquired by the present owner.