Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Sebastiano Ricci
Christ healing the paralytic man at the pool of Bethesda
Auction Closed
January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
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Sebastiano Ricci
Belluno 1659 - 1734 Venice
Christ healing the paralytic man at the pool of Bethesda
oil on canvas
canvas: 29½ by 52 in.; 74.9 by 132.1 cm.
framed: 39½ by 61⅞ in.; 100.3 by 157.2 cm.
Jean, Comte de Sellon (1736-1810), Château d'Allaman, Pays de Vaud, Switzerland (according to a label on the verso, inv. no. 62);
Thence probably by descent to his son, Jean-Jacques de Sellon (1782–1839), Geneva;
Private collector, Switzerland, by 1978;
Anonymous sale ("Collection Patricienne Genevoise"), Geneva, Genève Enchères, 4 May 2022, lot 158 (as "École vénitienne anciennement attribuée à Sebastiano Ricci", as one of a pair).
Thence probably by descent to his son, Jean-Jacques de Sellon (1782–1839), Geneva;
Private collector, Switzerland, by 1978;
Anonymous sale ("Collection Patricienne Genevoise"), Geneva, Genève Enchères, 4 May 2022, lot 158 (as "École vénitienne anciennement attribuée à Sebastiano Ricci", as one of a pair).
M. Natale, Art venetien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, exhibition catalogue, Venice 1978, p. 143, cat. no. 104, reproduced.
Pfäffikon, Schwyz, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum; Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Art venetien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, 18 June - 5 November 1978, no. 104.