Lot Essay
A very similar group of figures appears in Brizio's altarpiece of 1618 in the Church of San Petronio, Bologna (E. Hermann-Atorino, Francesco Brizio, Worms, 1989, no. F10, fig. 20).
Two figures discovering victims of a massacre
Details
Attributed to Francesco Brizio (Bologna 1574-1623)
Two figures discovering victims of a massacre
with inscription 'Caracci d..'
red chalk on brown paper
8 x 10¾ in. (199 x 272 mm.)
Two figures discovering victims of a massacre
with inscription 'Caracci d..'
red chalk on brown paper
8 x 10¾ in. (199 x 272 mm.)
Provenance
Gavin Hamilton, Rome, according to an inscription 'A. Caracci Rome bought of Hamilton' on the mount.
Uvedale Price (cf. L. 2048), according to an inscription 'bt from Uvedale Price's sale' on the mount.
S. Leigh Sotheby, F.S.A., according to an inscription 'from Mr Sotheby's Collection Sold in London 1862' on the mount (not apparently in his sale, Sotheby and Wilkinson, 6 February 1862).
Uvedale Price (cf. L. 2048), according to an inscription 'b
S. Leigh Sotheby, F.S.A., according to an inscription 'from M
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