Guido Reni

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.

Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746-1794), by whom presumed to have been bought on the grand Tour between 1768 and 1771;
In the Posthumous inventory of Sparre’s effects dawn up in 1794, when in the Sahlgren-Sparre Palace in Gothenburg; no. 25, in the Blue Chamber;
Thence by descent in Gothenburg to his son-in-law Jacob Gustaf de la Gardie (1768-1842);
By whom sold circa 1840 with the entire Sparre Collection to Carl Count de Geer of Leufstra;
Kept at the Palace in Gothenburg until 1855, when given to the granddaughter of the above and sent to her house at Wanås in southern Sweden;
Thence by family descent in the same house until sold (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 2006, lot 39;
There acquired by the present owner.

Bouppteckning (Inventory) of the contents of the Sahlgren-Sparre Palace, Gothenburg, taken after Gustaf Adolf Sparre’s death, 1794, cat. no. 25, hanging in the Blue Chamber;
D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni.  A Complete Catalogue of his Works..., Oxford 1984, p. 275, under cat. no. 162;
D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni.  L'Opera Completa, Novara 1988 (revised and expanded Italian ed. of the above), p. 284, under cat. no. 153;
Old Master Paintings from the collection of Gustaf Adolf Sparre (1746-1794), introduction to the sale catalogue, Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2007, unpaginated, reproduced fig. 12.