Live Auction 5103Old Master Pictures
Lot 94

Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766)

Closed10 December 1993

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GBP 56,500

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Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766)

Saint Nicholas of Bari saving the Victims of a Shipwreck

28¾ x 23¾in. (73 x 60.5cm.)

Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 1981, lot 33 ($28,000)

Specialist note

This picture is sold with a drawing by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti after the lost altarpiece (fig. 1). Executed in black chalk and grey wash, this measures 567 x 434mm. and is signed, inscribed and dated on the verso: 'Quadro di Corrado Giaquinto posto nella chiesa di S. Nicolò de Lorensi ... copiato da me Giuseppe Ratti Genovese in Roma l'anno 1759'