Manner of Giulio Cesare Procaccini
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine
oil on canvas
22½ x 27.1/8in. (57.2 x 68.8cm.)
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Follower of Giulio Cesare Procaccini
After the picture in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, formerly acquired by Catherine the Great from Sir Horace Walpole, Houghton.
PROVENANCE: Duke Gandolfi Collection, and by descent to the Horneyold Family, Blackmore House, Worcestershire.
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The composition is loosely based on Procaccini's picture of the same subject in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.