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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

canvas: 25 1/2 by 19 3/4 in.; 64.2 by 50.2 cm.

Description:

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Condition:

framed: 32 3/4 by 27 3/4 in.; 83.2 by 70.5 cm. To request a condition report for this lot, please contact [email protected].

Literature:

Possibly, E. Safarik et al., "The Colonna Collection of Paintings Inventories 1611-1795," in Italian Inventories II, Monaco, New Providence, London and Paris 1996, p. 664, no. 847 (as an anonymous portrait of Beatrice Cenci's mother); X. Barbier de Montualt, Les Museés et Galeries de Rome, Rome 1870 (as by Caravaggio); V. Golzio, Il Palazzo Barberini e la sua Galleria, Rome 1925, p. 74 (as by Caravaggio); M. Gregori, "Alcuni aspetti del Genovesino," in Paragone, 59, 1954, p. 27, note 2 (as by the Maestro della Buona Ventura); M. Gregori (ed.), Il Morazzone, exhibition catalogue, Varese 1962, p. 114 (as by the Maestro della Buona Ventura); M. Gregori, "Contribuito per un'analisi del percorso di Francesco Cairo," in Francesco Cairo 1607 - 1665, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1983, pp. 21-22, reproduced p. 21 (as La cosiddetta Beatrice Cenci); L. Basso, "Precisazoni su Franceso Cairo," Ph.D. diss., Università Cattolica, Milan 1983-84, pp. 78-79, cat. no. 22; P. Rosenberg (ed.), Catalogue de la donation Othon Kaufman et François Schlageter au Département de peintures, Musée du Louvre, Paris 1984, p. 80; O. Menegaux, in Répertoire, 1988, p. 67; F. Frangi, Francesco Cairo, Turin 1998, pp. 249-250, cat. no. 39, reproduced fig. 43.

Provenance:

Possibly Filippo III Colonna (1760-1718), Rome, by 1783; Barberini collection, Rome, by 1870, and sold in 1935; There acquired by a private collector; By whom anonymously sold, New York, Doyle, 16 May 2001, lot 188 (as Italian School, 17th century); There acquired.