Lot Essay
An old label adhered to the stretcher reads "Herzoglich Leuchtenberg:/Majorats Fideicommiss./Matrikel II, 3./Inventar No 109,/109"
There are two autograph versions of this composition; in the Brera, Milan, and in the Academy, Venice. There are also three preparatory: one, a sanguine, with variations, at Windsor Castle; another identical drawing is in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, and a third, red chalk drawing, was sold through Christie's, London, July 8, 1975, lot 72.
The present lot is sold with a photocopy of a letter dated Bologna 2 March 1992 from Professor Andrea Emiliani confirming the attribution to Cantarini and suggesting a date of 1636-37
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais assembled an impressive collection of pictures while accompanying his stepfather Napoleon on his Italian campaigns and during his years as Viceroy of Italy from 1805-1814. He married the daughter of the King of Bavaria, and on settling there after Napoleon's fall, was created Duke of Leuchtenberg. Prince Eugène's second son and heir, Maximilian, married the daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. It appears that some of the Leuchtenberg collection was sold shortly before the 1914-1918 war
There are two autograph versions of this composition; in the Brera, Milan, and in the Academy, Venice. There are also three preparatory: one, a sanguine, with variations, at Windsor Castle; another identical drawing is in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, and a third, red chalk drawing, was sold through Christie's, London, July 8, 1975, lot 72.
The present lot is sold with a photocopy of a letter dated Bologna 2 March 1992 from Professor Andrea Emiliani confirming the attribution to Cantarini and suggesting a date of 1636-37
Prince Eugène de Beauharnais assembled an impressive collection of pictures while accompanying his stepfather Napoleon on his Italian campaigns and during his years as Viceroy of Italy from 1805-1814. He married the daughter of the King of Bavaria, and on settling there after Napoleon's fall, was created Duke of Leuchtenberg. Prince Eugène's second son and heir, Maximilian, married the daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. It appears that some of the Leuchtenberg collection was sold shortly before the 1914-1918 war