Lot Essay
These pictures were unknown to Anna Paola Zugini-Tauro when she published her catalogue raisonné of the work of Diziani in 1977, and they seem to be the only known depictions of these themes by the artist.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Gaspare Diziani (1689-1767)
Details
Gaspare Diziani (1689-1767)
Christ healing the Paralytic; and Christ and the Centurion
oil on canvas, oval
38 3/8 x 30½in. (97.5 x 77.5cm.)a pair (2)
Christ healing the Paralytic; and Christ and the Centurion
oil on canvas, oval
38 3/8 x 30½in. (97.5 x 77.5cm.)a pair (2)
Provenance
Giovanni Battista Guerci, by whom left to Marchese Don Manfredo Gaspare Trecchi, 1808 (according to labels on the stretchers).