Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo
Portrait of a woman holding a crown of laurels, half-length
Auction Closed
January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo
Venice circa 1485 – 1547 Rome
Portrait of a woman holding a crown of laurels, half-length
inscribed on the verso: 20e P.G Dolgorouky
oil on poplar panel
panel: 34¼ by 26½ in.; 87.6 by 67.3 cm.
framed: 41¾ by 33⅝ in.; 106 by 85.6 cm
Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Palazzo Barberini, Rome, by 1644 (1644 inv. no. 223);
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679), Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1672 inv. no. 23);
Thence by descent in the Barberini family;
From whom likely acquired by a member of the Dolgorukov (or Dolgoruky) dynasty, possibly Alexey Grigoryevic Dolgorukov (d. 1734);
Thence probably by descent to Prince Serge Alexandrovich Dolgorukov (1875-1933), Saint Petersburg;
Private collection, Belgium, by the 1960s;
From whom acquired by the present owner.
Thence by inheritance to his brother, Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597-1679), Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1672 inv. no. 23);
Thence by descent in the Barberini family;
From whom likely acquired by a member of the Dolgorukov (or Dolgoruky) dynasty, possibly Alexey Grigoryevic Dolgorukov (d. 1734);
Thence probably by descent to Prince Serge Alexandrovich Dolgorukov (1875-1933), Saint Petersburg;
Private collection, Belgium, by the 1960s;
From whom acquired by the present owner.
M.A. Lavin, Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New York 1975, pp. 166, 294, 337.