The Martyrdom of Saint Christina

Details

Domenico Maria Canuti (Bologna 1620-1684)
The Martyrdom of Saint Christina
pen and brown ink, brown wash, minor ink gall damages
10 x 7 in. (256 x 178 mm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 December 1992, lot 111.

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Lot Essay

A study for Canuti's altarpiece in the church of Santa Cristina, Bologna (S. Stagni, Domenico Maria Canuti, Rimini, 1988, no. 42, pl. XXXIX). The picture was commissioned by a nun of the Vizzani family, probably in the early 1680s. Malvasia described the picture as 'la spiritosamente istoriata S. Cristina, afferrata per gli capegli dal Padre, con terrore e Pietà degli astanti è del ferace Canuti' (C.C. Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, Bologna, 1686, p. 267).

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