Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a Private Collection
GIUSEPPE BARTOLOMEO CHIARI | THE BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN
Lot Closed
July 29, 12:45 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
GIUSEPPE BARTOLOMEO CHIARI
Lucca or Rome 1654 - 1727 Rome
THE BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN
oil on canvas
unframed: 137 x 95.9 cm.; 53⅞ x 37¾ in.
framed: 158.4 x 118.1 cm.; 62⅜ x 46½ in.
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Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 8 June 2017, lot 98, where acquired.
Another version of this painting, with slight variations in the poses of the male figure, lower right, and excluding the group of angels above, can be found in the collection at Belton House, Lincolnshire.1 Both works are adapted from the canvas painted for the Cappella Marcaccioni in Santa Maria del Suffragio, on the via Giulia, Rome.
1 http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/436010.1