Luigi Garzi (1638-1721)

Saint John the Baptist preaching to the multitude

Details

Luigi Garzi (1638-1721)
Saint John the Baptist preaching to the multitude
oil on canvas
38¼ x 28¼in. (97.3 x 70.9cm.)

Provenance

with Sig. Richetti, Palazzo Garzoni, Venice, by 1889, as Domenichino.
Mrs. Albert Conro, 1889, as Domenichino, and by descent to her son
Col. Edward Gilpin Johnson, as Domenichino, from whom passed in 1934 to
Robert T. Merrill; (+) sale, Donald Wall Art Galleries, Milwaukee, 15 December 1949, lot 1, as Domenichino, where acquired by
Mrs Thomas F. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee.

Literature

F. Stover in The Milwaukee Art Journal, 11 December 1949, as Domenichino.
F. Stover in The Milwaukee Art Journal, 4 June, 1950, as Domenichino.

Exhibited

Milwaukee Art Gallery (lent by the present owner).

Lot Essay

Born in Pistoia in 1638, Luigi Garzi entered the Roman workshop of Andrea Sacchi at the age of 15. There he acquired the classical training that was to serve him throughout a career which consisted principally of commissions for Roman churches such as San Paolo alla Regola and San Silvestro in Capite (see F. Titi, Studio di pittura, scultura, et architettura, nelle chiese di Roma, II, 1987, p. 129, figs. 483-4 and p. 327, figs. 1210-11.).

We are grateful to Dr. Edgar Peters Bowron for confirming the attribution from a photograph.

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