Christ mourned by seraphim

Details

Giuseppe Bazzani (Mantua 1690-1769)
Christ mourned by seraphim
oil on canvas
37 ¾ x 29 1/8 in. (95.8 x 74.1 cm.)

Provenance

Copparoni collection, Rome, before 1988.

Literature

N. Ivanoff, 'Tre Pieta di Bazzani', Emporium, CIX, 1949, pp. 163-4, fig. 2.
F. Caroli, Giuseppe Bazzani: L'opera completa, Milan, 1988, p. 90, no. 74.

Lot Essay

This striking Christ mourned by seraphim is considered by Flavio Caroli to be an early work by Giuseppe Bazzani, painted c. 1739 (loc. cit.). A similar picture by Bazzani showing The Deposition and datable to the 1740s is currently in the Museo Diocesano, Mantua.

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