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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master Paintings Day Auction | 61 | $****** - ****** | Good | Venus pricked by a thorn (The origin of the red rose) |
paintings
148.7 x 196.1 cm (58.54 x 77.2 in)
oil on canvas
Possibly commissioned by Alessandro Capponi (1644-1715), Florence;
Thence by descent to his son Scipione Capponi;
By whom sold in England;
George Encil (1906-1995), by 1989;
Thence by inheritance to the present owner.
Possibly G.M. Crescimbeni, L" Arcadia del canonico Gio. Mario Crescimbeni custode della medesima Arcadia, di nuovo ampliata, e pubblicata d"ordine della Generale Adunanza degli Arcadi, colla giunta del Catalogo de" medesimi , Rome 1711, pp. 133-34;
Possibly G.P. Bellori, "Vita, et opera di pitture del Sig.r Carlo Maratti", in Le Vite Inedite, Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, Carlo Maratta, 1672-1695 , M. Piacentini (ed.), Rome 1942, p. 130 (as painted in 1679 for Ferrante Capponi);
Possibly F.S. Baldinucci, "Carlo Maratta" in Zibaldone baldinucciano. Raccolta di scritti editie ed inediti di Filippo e Francesco Baldinucci e delle loro fonti manoscritte, 1728 , B. Santi (ed.), vol. II, Florence 1981, pp. 366 and 642;
S. Rudolph, ‘Una visita alla capanna del pastore. Disfilo "primo dipintore in Arcadia" (Carlo Maratti)", in Atti del convegno di studi per il III centenario dell"Accademia dell"Arcadia , Rome 1991, pp. 394-95, reproduced fig. 4;
S. Rudolph, Niccolò Maria Pallavicini. L"ascesa al Tempio della Virtù attraverso il Mecenatismo, Rome 1995, pp. 63 and 197 under n. 141;
S. Vsevozhskaya, A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage , L. Dukelskaya and A. Moore (eds), New Haven and London 2002, p. 146, under no. 53;
E. Reznicek, Experience and Adventures of a Collector, G. Encil (ed.), Paris 1989, pp. 48-55, reproduced in colour (as Annibale Carracci).
Property from the George Encil Collection
Attributed to Carlo Maratta
Camerano 1625-1713
Venus pricked by a thorn (The origin of the red rose)
oil on canvas, in a late 17th century Emilian frame
unframed: 148.7 x 196.1 cm.; 58½ x 77¼ in.
framed: 191.5 x 237.6 cm.; 75⅜ x 93½ in.
