A young woman, bust-length, in a brown dress and white headdress

Details

Attributed to Ginevra Cantofoli (1608-1672)
A young woman, bust-length, in a brown dress and white headdress
oil on canvas, in a feigned oval
29 x 231/8 in. (73.5 x 58.7 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased from a dealer in the Via del Babuino, Rome, by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), as Guercino
Miss A. Brougham-Thompson; Christie's, 29 June 1951, lot 135, as Guercino 'Portrait of Beatrice Cenci' (18 gns. to Carr)
Anon. sale, Christie's, 12 April 1985, lot 95, as 'Circle of Elisabetta Sirani'
The property of a gentleman of title; Christie's, 11 December 1987, lot 115 (£7,000)

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For the attribution compare the 'Sibyl' in the Bob Jones Collection, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A. (see D.S.Pepper, Bob Jones Collection of Religious Art. Italian Paintings, 1984, p.40, no.37.1, ill. p 181.)

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