Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani Florence 1660 - 1731

Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Lewis Marshall
Their sale, London, Bonhams, March 28, 1974, lot 22
(Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 2, 2000, lot 233)

London, Hazlitt Gallery, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Paintings, 1963, no. 18
London, Sotheby's, Exhibition of the Marshall Collection, December 31, 1972-January 8, 1973, no. 9

Lined canvas. The surface is very taut and thin. Under UV light: very small retouches on the two figures at left and right.
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The present work would appear to be a modello for the altarpiece by Sagrestani in the Complesso di San Firenze, Florence. A bozzetto sold Sotheby's, London, April 5, 1995, lot 218. An even smaller oil sketch, in which the figure of Christ is omitted but the figures of the Virgin and Saint John appear, was exhibited in London, Hazlitt Gallery, 1963, and in London, Royal Academy, 1979.