Live Auction 23295Old Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CERRINI, CALLED IL CAVALIER PERUGINO (PERUGIA 1609-1681 ROME)
Lot 161Property of a Private Collector

GIOVANNI DOMENICO CERRINI, CALLED IL CAVALIER PERUGINO (PERUGIA 1609-1681 ROME)

Lucretia

Closed5 February 2025

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USD 126,000

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GIOVANNI DOMENICO CERRINI, CALLED IL CAVALIER PERUGINO (PERUGIA 1609-1681 ROME)
Lucretia
oil on canvas
62 ¾ x 47 1⁄8 in. (159.3 x 109.6 cm.)

Sir Robert Gore-Booth, 4th Baronet, M.P. (1805-1876), purchased in Florence, 12 February 1837, as 'Guido Reni', included in the list of 'pictures left for packing at Signor Gerardi's. datable to that year, [no. 30], '1 Lucretia by Guido -', and by descent to,
Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet (1843-199), Lissadell House, Ballinful, Co. Sligo, and by descent to,
Sir Josslyn Augustus Richard Gore-Booth, 6th Baronet (1869-1944), Lissadell House, Ballinful, Co. Sligo, and by descent to,
Sir Michael Savile Gore-Booth, 7th Baronet (1908-1987), Lissadell House, Ballinful, Co. Sligo, and by descent to,
Sir Angus Josslyn Gore-Booth, 8th Baronet (1920-1996), Lissadell House, Ballinful, Co. Sligo, and by descent to,
Sir Josslyn Henry Robert Gore-Booth (b. 1950), 9th Baronet, Lissadell House, Ballinfull, Co. Sligo; his sale, [House Contents Auction: Lissadell House, Balling], Hamilton Osborne King Fine Art and Christie's, on the premises, 25 November 2003, lot 282, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

This depiction of Lucretia still holds the record price at auction for a work by Perugian-born artist Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, from when it last sold in 2003 (€120,000; loc. cit.). Cerrini’s style was greatly influenced by Bolognese artist Guido Reni, whose workshop he joined after moving to Rome in the mid-1630s. It is therefore unsurprising that the painting was acquired as a work by Reni by Sir Robert Gore-Booth in 1837 (loc. cit.). Cerrini’s style, characterized by a chiaroscuro softness and statuesque quality of the figures, remained consistent throughout his career. Given this uniformity in style and that most of his paintings are undated, it is difficult to establish a chronology to Cerrini’s oeuvre.