THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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Provenance
Charles Carstairs, Paris
His sister, Mrs. Maria Carstairs Brooks (+); sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 May 1971, lot 65 (with the pendant, see note below, $40,000)
with Leger Galleries, London (Old Master Exhibition, 3-27 May 1972, no.2 and colour pl.VII)
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 2 July 1976, lot 7
Literature
F. Arisi, Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del' 700, 1986, p.371, no.278, illustrated, and under no.279, and p.426, under no.392

Lot Essay

The present picture was accompanied until 1972 by a pendant, also signed and dated 1739 (Arisi, loc. cit., no.279, illustrated). As Professor Arisi points out, 'Questi due dipinti rappresentano bene un momento particolarmente fervido e ampiamente documentato'. Three drawings for individual figures in the present painting are in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (nos.15463, 17539 and 17542), including a particularly fine sketch for the more prominent woman, and a number of derivative works are recorded. A pair of late replicas of the two pictures is in a Roman private collection and another pair, executed with studio assistance and of square format, is in an American private collection. In 1749 Panini executed a painting containing elements from both capricci (idem, p.426, no.392, illustrated), and the man admiring the Farnese Hercules on the left is copied in a picture formerly in the collection of Dr. Ottavio Poggi, Rome, which Arisi attributes to Charles-Louis Clérisseau

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