Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603-1684)

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Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603-1684)

The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

34¼ x 27½in. (87 x 69.8cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), Luton Park.
His son, John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (1744-1814), Luton Park, where recorded in inventories of 1799, p. 43 (as Donducci), and 1822, p. 20 (in the Drawing Room), and by descent.

Literature

J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings lent for exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 226, as Donducci

Exhibited

London, Bethnal Green Branch Museum, The Bute Collection, 1883, no. 226, as Donducci

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Mary Newcome for confirming the attribution. The present picture is a variant of one by Carlone's near-contemporary, Gioacchino Assereto (born 1600) in store at the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa. Dr. Newcome points out that both paintings must be of the same date as Bernardo Strozzi's Paradise of c. 1620 in the Accademia Ligustica, Genoa (L. Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi, Rome, 1966, p. 112, fig. 267) and that Assereto's version probably precedes that by Carlone

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