Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato 1609-1685 Rome)
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato 1609-1685 Rome)

The Madonna and Child

Details
Giovanni Battista Salvi, called Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato 1609-1685 Rome)
The Madonna and Child
oil on canvas, tondo
29 in. (73.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 19 May 1978, lot 305.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr. François Macé de Lépinay for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs and for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Dr. de Lépinay notes that this is the only autograph example of this composition known to him, which derives from the Holy Family by Pompeo Cesura in the Wallace Collection, London.

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