Property from a Distingu꧒ished Private collection, Waꦛshington, D.C.
MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI | GOATHERD PLAYING HIS PIPE WITH THREE BOYS PLAYING AND TWO GIRLS LISTENING
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October 14, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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🐻Property from a Distinguished Private Collec♋tion, Washington, D.C.
MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI
Bologna 1648 - 1729
GOATHERD PLAYING HIS PIPE WITH THREE BOYS PLAYING AND TWO GIRLS LISTENING
oil on canvas
43¼by 51⅛in.; 110 by 130 cm.
Balbi collection, Genoa, 18th century;
Balbi di Piovera, Castello di Piovera, by 1956;
Transferred 🅰through family alliance to Palazzo Odescalchiꦅ, Rome;
Edoardo Testori, Milan;
Private collection, USA;
With Simon Dickinson, Ltd., New York and London;
From whom acquired, 1993.
Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, Description Historique et Critique de l'Italie, Paris 1766-69, vol. I, p. 131;
N. Cochin, Voyage d'Italie, Losanna 1773, vol. III, p. 281 ("...autre dessus de porte, de Franceschini")✱;
C.G. Ratti, Istruzione di Quanto Puó Vedersi di Piú Bello in Genova, Genoa 1780, p. 189 ("Palazzo del Signor Frances🌸co M. Balbi, sopraporta del Franceschini, il quadro pastorale...");
O. Kurz, Bolognese Drawings at Windsor Castle, London 1955, cat. 𓂃no. 239, reproduced figs. 4𓆏4-45;
D.C. Miller, Marcantonio Franceschini, Turin 2001, pp. 34-38ও, 278, 409-11, cat. no🅠. 174, reproduced pp. 34 fig. S22, 278.