Antiveduto Gramatica (Siena 1571-1627 Rome)

The Madonna and Child

Details

Antiveduto Gramatica (Siena 1571-1627 Rome)
The Madonna and Child
oil on canvas
39 x 29 7/8 in. (99 x 75.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale [Miss A.C. Rennie]; Christie's, London, 24 February 1933, lot 119, as 'Carracci' (10 gns. to Druits).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 12 October 1983, lot 101, as 'Attributed to Sisto Badalocchio'.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 30 November 1983, lot 15, as 'Antiveduto Gramatica'.

Literature

G. Papi, Antiveduto Gramatica, Soncino, 1995, p. 104, no. 36, fig. 22.
R. Contini and G. Papi (eds.), Giovanni Serodine (1594/1600-1630) e i precedenti romani, exhibition catalogue, Lugano, 1993, p. 144.

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Lot Essay

This work was first given to Gramatica by Erich Schleier in 1983, after it had passed through sale at Sotheby's with an attribution to Sisto Badalocchio. Gianni Papi, in his 1995 catalogue (op. cit.), dates the picture to circa 1620, and suggests it was executed later than the other known autograph version of the composition, held at the Residenz Museum, Munich. The present lot is distinguished by the softer modelling of the Madonna's features and the twisted ribbon around her hair.

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