The Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist

Details

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Venice 1675-1741)
The Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
50 x 40 3/8 in. (127 x 102.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's, London 29 May 1931, lot 81, as 'Mengs' (sold 16 gns.)
Anon. Sale, Bukowski's, Stockholm, 8-9 October 1941, lot 144, as 'Italian Master, 17th Century' (unsold).
Anon. Sale, AB Stockholm, Auctionsverket, 20-24 April 1982, lot 781, as 'unknown Italian Master, 18th Century', when purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Another canvas of the same composition was published by Rodolfo Pallucchini as by Pellegrini (Pospisil Duckett collection, Venice; 'Novited Appunti per Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini', Panthéon, XVIII, v. 1960, p. 246, illustrated p.249).

We are grateful to Professor George Knox, who on the basis of a photograph, has suggested on stylistic grounds that present lot is an early autograph work by Pellegrini, painted in Italy before his departure to England.

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