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    24 April 2009

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    Lot 97

    Orazio Samacchini (Bologna 1532-1577)

    The Baptism of Christ

    Price realised

    GBP 169,250

    Estimate

    GBP 70,000 - GBP 100,000

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    Orazio Samacchini (Bologna 1532-1577)
    The Baptism of Christ
    with the coat-of-arms of Johann Caspar and Jacob Franz Brücker (centre left)
    oil on canvas
    59 1/8 x 47 7/8 in. (150.3 x 121.7 cm.)

    Provenance

    Johann Caspar Brücker, Altdorf, by whom given c. 1690, as the dowry of his daughter, the Capuchine Abbess of Altdorf, to
    The Capuchine Cloister, Altdorf, until c. 1900, when purchased by a priest, by whom bequeathed to
    Ingenbohl Convent, Canton Schwyz, until at least 1959.
    The private collection of a priest, Switzerland, and by descent.
    with Galerie Gloggner, Lucerne.

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    Lot Essay

    Another version of this picture, attributed to Orazio Sammachini, is in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid (inv. no. 8472).

    A copy of the present picture, published by Dr. Helmi Gasser as by Denys Calvaert, is in the Cloister at Seedorf (H. Gasser, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Uri, Bern, I.I, 2004, pp. 282-4, fig. 223).

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