Girolamo Pesci (Rome 1679-1759)
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Girolamo Pesci (Rome 1679-1759)

Rebecca at the Well

Details
Girolamo Pesci (Rome 1679-1759)
Rebecca at the Well
signed 'G.moPci' (lower centre)
oil on panel
17 x 13¼ in. (43.2 x 33.7 cm.)
in the original Maratta frame
Provenance
D. Lorenzo Pellerano, Buenos Aires; sale, J.C. Naon, Buenos Aires, August 1938.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Girolamo Pesci was a pupil of Carlo Maratta and later of Francesco Trevisani, both of whom were to have a lasting influence on his artistic output. Pesci is known primarily for his large-scale religious work including commissions for the altarpiece in Spirito Santo de Carignano in 1713, the vaulted frescoes in the sacristy of San Onofrio, Rome, and the huge ceiling fresco in Santa Maria Maddalena, Rome. Giancarlo Sestieri points out that Pesci's delicate style was more suited to smaller-scale cabinet paintings, of which relatively few are known (see G. Sestieri, Repertorio della Pittura Romana della fine del Seicento e del Settecento, Rome, 1994, I, p. 146). This hitherto unrecorded work is one of the finest examples of the artist working on this intimate scale.

We are grateful to Professor Giancarlo Sestieri for confirming the attribution after inspecting the picture in the original.

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