LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

96.46 in. (245.00 cm.) (height) by 76.18 in. (193.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

stamped on the reverse with a monogram and with the inventory number: 183

Literature:

Cardinal Del Monte's postumous inventory drawn up in 1627, folio 576, verso, in which the present work is the only painting by Sacchi mentioned:. Un quadro di una Roma di mano di Andrea Sacchi con cornice negre con un filetto d'oro di Palmi dodici in circa ;. Listed in the inventory drawn up on 3 June 1628 for Cardinal del Monte's second heir, Alessandro: Roma, figura intera con il Tevere Romolo Remolo [sic] putti con la lupa quadro grande con cornice un poco indorate, et negra di Andreuccio sacchi ; . C.L. Frommel, 'Caravaggios Frühwerk und der Karinal Francesco Maria del Monte', in Storia dell'Arte , 9/10, 1971, p. 31, folio 576v; . A. Sutherland Harris, Andrea Sacchi , Oxford 1977, p. 38, under n. 7; . R. Barbiellini Amidei in Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661 , exh. cat., Rome 1999, p. 35

Provenance:

Commissioned in the first half of the 1620s by Cardinal Francesco Maria Bourbon Del Monte, Rome (1549-1626);. By descent to his heirs; . Private collection, France