Lot Essay
Variants with other saints are in the Duomo, Faenza; the Galleria Estense, Modena; the Pinacoteca, Bologna; the Galleria Nazionale, Rome; the X Museum, Copenhagen; and the Galleria Borghese, Rome
Details
INNOCENZO FRANCUCCI, called INNOCENZO DA IMOLA*(c.1485-after 1548)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, and Saints Jerome and Francis
oil on panel
37¾ x 29½in. (95.9 x 75cm.)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, and Saints Jerome and Francis
oil on panel
37¾ x 29½in. (95.9 x 75cm.)
Provenance
Lord Stowell; his sale, Christie's, London, July 2, 1836, lot 116 (19gns to Lord Normanton)
5th Earl of Normanton; his sale, Christie's, London, July 9, 1976, lot 63, pl. 23 (#2600 to de Villiers)
Anon. sale, Christie's, Rome, Dec. 7, 1978, lot 143, pl. 29 (7,000,000 lire)
5th Earl of Normanton; his sale, Christie's, London, July 9, 1976, lot 63, pl. 23 (#2600 to de Villiers)
Anon. sale, Christie's, Rome, Dec. 7, 1978, lot 143, pl. 29 (7,000,000 lire)
Literature
G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, 1857, IV, p. 364
2nd Earl of Normonton, Somerley Ms. Catalogue, 1884, no. 41
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Normonton, Somerley, Ringwood, Hants., Inventory of the Pictures, Drawings and Prints, 1948, no. 40
2nd Earl of Normonton, Somerley Ms. Catalogue, 1884, no. 41
The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Normonton, Somerley, Ringwood, Hants., Inventory of the Pictures, Drawings and Prints, 1948, no. 40