Prope𒁃rty from a Distinguished Privatജe collection, Washington, D.C.
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October 14, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Wasꦇhington, D.C.
GIORGIO DI GIOVANNI
Documented in Siena 1538 - 1559
FLIGHT OF CLOELIA
oil on panel
29 by 48⅝ in.; 73.6 by 123.5 cm.
Cardinal Antonio Barberini (recorded in the inventories of his 𒈔goods at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, 1644, and at Palazzo Giubbonari, Rome, in 1671, after his death);
Anonymous sale, Londᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚon, Sotheby'ℱs 30 June 1971, lot 6 (as Beccafumi);
Private Collection, Dublin;
With Daniel Katz, Ltd., London;
From whom acquired, December 1996.
M.A. Lavin, Seventeenth Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New York 1975, pp. 169, 196, 500, cat. nos. 289 and 106 (a♌s Micherino d♔a Siena, called Beccafumi);
R.P. Pisani, Gli Uffizi. Catalogo Generale, Florence 1979, p. 159, under cat. no. 186;
F. Sricchia Santoro, L'arte a Siena sotto i Medici, 1555-1609, exhibition catalog💝ue, Siena 1980, p. 5, under cat. no. 1;
F. Sricchia Santoro, Il Peruzzi e la pittura senese del suo tempo, in Baldassari Peruzzi, pittura scena e architettura nel cinquecento, Siena 1987, p. 439;
F. Sricchia Santoro, Da Sodoma a Marco Pino. Pittori a Siena nella Prima meta del Cinquecento, Florence 1988, p. 5, 439;
L. Kanter, Gothic to Renaissance: European Painting 1300-1600, Turin 1988, pp. 105-107, cat. no. 19 (as Marco Bigio);
F. Sricchia Santoro, Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, ♈Milan 1990, pp. 352-355, cat. no. 70, reproduced (as Giorgio di Giꦓovanni);
S. Brevaglieri, "Giorgio di Giovanni," in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 55, 2001.
London and New York, Colnaghi, Gothic to Renaissance: European Painting 1300-1600, 1988, no. 19 (as Marco Bigio).