MARCANTONIO FRANCESCHINI | GOATHERD PLAYING HIS PIPE WITH THREE BOYS PLAYING AND TWO GIRLS LISTENING

Balbi collection, Genoa, 18th century;

Balbi di Piovera, Castello di Piovera, by 1956;

Transferred through family alliance to Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome;

Edoardo Testori, Milan;

Private collection, USA;

With Simon Dickinson, Ltd., New York and London;

From whom acquired, 1993.

Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, Description Historique et Critique de l'Italie, Paris 1766-69, vol. I, p. 131;

N. Cochin, Voyage d'Italie, Losanna 1773, vol. III, p. 281 ("...autre dessus de porte, de Franceschini");

C.G. Ratti, Istruzione di Quanto Puó Vedersi di Piú Bello in Genova, Genoa 1780, p. 189 ("Palazzo del Signor Francesco M. Balbi, sopraporta del Franceschini, il quadro pastorale...");

O. Kurz, Bolognese Drawings at Windsor Castle, London 1955, cat. no. 239, reproduced figs. 44-45;

D.C. Miller, Marcantonio Franceschini, Turin 2001, pp. 34-38, 278, 409-11, cat. no. 174, reproduced pp. 34 fig. S22, 278.