GIUSEPPE BAZZANI (Reggio Emilia 1701-1780)
The Road to Emmaus (?)
oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 47 1/8 in. (49.8 x 119.7 cm.)
Provenance
Heimann, Los Angeles.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Literature
F. Caroli, Giuseppe Bazzani. L'opera completa, Milan, 1988, p. 92, no. 80, illustrated.
Sale room notice
Please note the additional literature for the present lot:
C. Perina, 'Some unpublished paintings by Giuseppe Bazzani', The Art Bulletin, 46, June 1946, pp. 227-228 and fig. 2.
C. Perina, Giuseppe Bazzani, 1690-1769, Florence, 1970, pp. 23 and 59, and pl. 44.
Please also note that the present lot was not in the Fogg Art Museum as stated in the Catalogue
Lot Essay
Caroli (loc. cit.) dates the present work to the early 1740s and records as its pendant a Christ at supper with Simon the Pharisee.