Joseph and Potiphar's wife

Details

GIOVANNI BATTISTA LANGETTI (GENOA 1635-1676 VENICE)
Joseph and Potiphar's wife
oil on canvas, unframed
76 x 55 ½ in. (193 x 141 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1996, lot 416, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

M.S. Mantovanelli, Giovanni Battista Langetti: Il Principe dei Tenebrosi, Soncino, 2011, pp. 180-181, no. 66, fig. 46.

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Lot Essay

According to Marina Stefani Mantovanelli, this painting had been offered as the work of a seventeenth-century Flemish hand (loc. cit.). By the time of its sale in 1996, however, it had been recognized as the work by the North Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Langetti (loc. cit.).

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