Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Viterbo 1610-1662)

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist and Saints Francis and Catherine

Details

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Viterbo 1610-1662)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist and Saints Francis and Catherine
with inscription 'Romanelli.' (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared in black chalk, the corners cut, minor losses
12 7/8 x 8 ½ in. (32.8 x 21.7 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 17 December 1998, lot 56A.

Exhibited

Royal Castle, Warsaw, The Masters of Drawing. Drawings from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 2010-2011, p. 158.

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Lot Essay

The attribution to Romanelli was confirmed at the time of the 1998 sale by Dr Jörg Merz, who noted that the composition was similar to that of the Madonna of the Rosary (1653) in San Domenico e Sisto in Rome (X. Brooke, Mantegna to Rubens: The Weld-Blundell Drawings Collection, exhib. cat., Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery and London, British Museum, 1998, p. 101).

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