Circle of Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino (1581-1641)

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Circle of Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino (1581-1641)

A River Landscape with Saint John Baptising

on copper
11 3/8 x 15 5/8in. (28.8 x 39.7cm.)

Provenance

Talleyrand
Sir Thomas Baring
Robert Holford, by descent to
Sir George Lindsay Holford, Dorchester House, Park Lane, London;
(+) Christie's, 15 July 1927, lot 47, as Domenichino (52 gns. to U. A. Newton)
F.J. Mather, Jr., 1929
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York, Gems of Baroque Painting, 1942, no.13, by whom sold to
C. M. Ayers

Literature

R. H. Benson, The Holford Collection, Dorchester House, Oxford, 1927, I, p.47, no.99, pl. LXXXIX
International Studio, XCII, Feb.1929, p.62
A. Boschetto, Per la conoscenza di Francesco Albani, pittore, Proporzioni, II, 1948, p. 119
C. C. Cunningham, Landscape with St. John Baptising in Wadsworth Atheneum Bulletin, no.16, April 1950, p.2
E. Borea, Aspetti del Domenichino paesista, Paragone, no.23, XI, 1960, p.9
E. Borea, Domenichino, Milan, 1965, pp.28-9 and note 26
R. E. Spear, Domenichino, New Haven, 1982, I, pp.315-6

Engraved

Jacques Prou (Leblanc 3)

Lot Essay

Two other versions of this composition are known. Both are on canvas; one is in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, and the other is in the collection of Pierre Rosenberg, Paris.
Cunningham and Borea, loc. cit., accept the Hartford canvas as Domenichino's, confusing it with the present version on copper. Spear, loc. cit., rejects all three, but refers to the above picture as 'the strongest of the three, reflective of Domenichino's style of ca. 1605'

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