FOLLOWER OF BONIFAZIO DE' PITATI, CALLED BONIFAZIO VERONESE | The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Ottoboni collection, Rome (their red wax seal on the reverse);
Fürstin von Campofranco, Bolzano (according to an old label on the reverse);
Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1783–1853);
By descent to the present owner.

The panel has two vertical supporting batons at either side, and is flat and stable. There is a prominent horizontal split across the middle (visible in the catalogue illustration). The paint surface is dirty and the varnish discoloured. There is a surface crack across the Madonna’s breast and arm measuring approx. 10 cm. There is an old scuff with associated paint loss in the Baptist’s fur, as well as an old damage where the paint surface has lifted, and a scratch approx. 15 cm. long, probably due to past frame abrasion. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals old spot retouching throughout the figures’ flesh tones, and scattered throughout.
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