Lot 41
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Provenance
1st Earl of Leicester, his mount with the attribution 'Geminianino' in William Kent's (?) hand
Literature
G. di Domenico Cortese, Percorso di Giacinto Gimignani, Commentari, XVIII, 1969, pp. 198-9
U.V. Pace, Giacinto Gimignani (1606-1681), Eine Studie zür römischen Malerei des Seicento, Freiburg, 1973, p. 210, no. 233
A.E. Popham and C.E. Lloyd, Old Master Drawings at Holkham Hall, Chicago, 1986, no. 130
Exhibited
London, Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of the Earl of Leicester, 1948, no. 14
London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., Old Master Drawings from Holkham, 1977, no. 35, illustrated
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Old Master Drawings from Holkham Hall , 1988

Lot Essay

Lloyd suggests that this drawing may be related to Gimignani's frescoes of the Camera delle Donne illustri finished in 1648 in Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Rome

The subject of the drawing is Horatius, sole survivor of the battle between the three Horatii and the three Curatii, killing his sister Horatia because she wept over the body of one of the dead Curatii, to whom she had been betrothed

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