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LORENZO PASINELLI | Saint John the Evangelist

Auction Closed

May 8, 12:10 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Private Collector

LORENZO PASINELLI

Bologna 1629 - 1700

Saint John the Evangelist


oil on canvas

74.8 x 62.4 cm.; 29⅜ x 24½ in.

Possibly Casa Barocci, Bologna, 1769;

Private collection, Marsala;

With Baumkotter Gallery, London, from whom acquired.

C. Baroncini, Lorenzo Pasinelli Pittore (1629-1700), Faenza 1993, pp. 164–65, cat. no. 5, reproduced p. 164.

In her 1993 monograph, Carmela Baroncini speculates as to whether this painting could be that recorded by Marcello Oretti in 1769 in the Casa Barocci, Bologna: 'S. Leonardo, Brocchindosso, un S. Giovanni fanciullo è del Pasinelli.'(1)


1 M. Oretti, Descrizione delle Pitture che sono state esposte nelle Strade di Bologna... Ms B 105, I, c.88.

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