Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)

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Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

oil on copper
16½ x 12 3/8in. (42 x 31.5cm.)

Engraved

Nicola Verdura, Rome, 1621, with the inscription 'Raphael Vrbinas Inventor' (G. Bernini Pezzini et al., Raphael Invenit - Stampe da Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1985, pp. 203-4, no. XXXIII/1, an impression from an edition of 1632 illustrated).
Giacomo Antonio Stefanoni, Rome, 1632, with the inscription 'Raphael Vrbinas Inventor' (ibid., p. 204, no. XXXIII/2, illustrated).

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. Erich Schleier for confirming that this is an early work by the artist, datable c. 1606-7 and loosely based on Raphael's Madonna del Passeggio, once in the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden in Rome and now on loan from the Duke of Sutherland's collection to the National Gallery of Scotland.

A smaller, second version was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 15 Jan. 1993, lot 145, as 'Attributed to Sisto Badalocchio' ($14,950).

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