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Property from a Distinguished Private collection, Washington, D.C.

GIORGIO DI GIOVANNI | FLIGHT OF CLOELIA

Auction Closed

October 14, 03:02 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Washington, 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 goods at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, 1644, and at Palazzo Giubbonari, Rome, in 1671, after his death);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's 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 (as Micherino da 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 catalogue, 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 Giovanni);

S. Brevaglieri, "Giorgio di Giovanni," in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 55, 2001.