LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.15 in. (71.50 cm.) (height) by 21.65 in. (55.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Wiesbaden, Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Italienische Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, May - June 1935, no. 53 (as Lodovico Carracci).

Literature:

M. Oretti, manuscript no. Ms.B. 104, Biblioteca Comunale, Bologna, written in the second half of the eighteenth century (as manner of or school of Ludovico Carracci, in Casa Marsigli, Bologna);. A. von Schneider, Aus Der Sammlung Robert Scholz-Forni, Hamburg 1937, p. 38, cat. no. 6 (as Lodovico Carracci); . H. Bodmer, Lodovico Carracci, Burg 1939, pp. 85-86, reproduced fig. 76 (as Ludovico Carracci);. M. Goering, 'Die Sammlung Scholz-Forni', in Pantheon, May 1940, no. 5, p. 118 (as Lodovico Carracci);. E. Calbi and D. Scaglietti Kelescian, Marcello Oretti e il Patrimonio Artistico Privato Bolognese, Bologna 1984, p. 69 (as Manner of or school of Ludovico Carracci);. G. Faigenbaum, Lodovico Carracci: A study of his later career and a catalogue of his paintings, Princeton 1984, p. 232, cat. no. 24, reproduced fig. 31 (as Lodovico Carracci);. A. Vannugli, 'Ludovico Carracci: un'Erminia ritrovata e un riesame delle committenze romane', in Storia dell'Arte, 1987, no. 59, p. 54 (as Ludovico Carracci);. A. Brogi, 'Lorenzo Garbieri: Un "incamminato" fra romanzo sacro e romanzo nero', in Paragone, May 1989 , p. 9, and footnotes 22 and 23, pp. 22-23, reproduced fig. 13 (as Lorenzo Garbieri);. E. Negro, M. Pirondini, La Scuola dei Carracci, Dall'Accademia alla Bottega di Ludovico, Modena 1994, p. 178 (as Lorenzo Garbieri);. A. Brogi, Ludovico Carracci, Bologna 2001, p. 273, cat. no. R52 (as Lorenzo Garbieri).

Provenance:

Probably, Casa Marsigli, Via di San Mamolo, Bologna, in the second half of the eighteenth-century;. Robert Scholz-Forni, Hamburg, by 1935;. By descent within the family of the present owner for three generations.