LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.89 in. (68.30 cm.) (height) by 19.72 in. (50.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Carlo Dolci: Firenze 1616-1687, 30 June - 15 November 2015, no. 81.

Literature:

M. Tomlin, ‘the 1782 Inventory of Osterley Park’, Furniture History, XXII, 1986, p. 121. F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci: Complete catalogue of the Paintings, Florence, 2015, Addenda, no. 1, pp. 318-9, as 'Carlo Dolci (with the assistance of Onorio Marinari?)'.

Provenance:

Robert Child (1739-1792), Osterley Park, recorded in the inventory of 1782, as 'Saint Veronica', among the paintings in the Breakfast Room, and by descent to his granddaughter, Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867), who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey (1773-1859), and by descent; Hampton & Sons, Middleton Park, 30 May- 5 June 1934, lot 1935, as 'Saint Veronica'. Private collection, Luxembourg, as 'Ingres'. Anonymous sale; Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 20 November 2009, lot 287, as 'Attributed to Jean-Pierre Franque', where acquired by the present owner.