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Artworks
Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666)
Saint Francis receiving the stigmata, c.1650-5Oil on marble; inscribed bottom right with the inventory number ‘94’34.6 x 25.7 cmProvenance
Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Palazzo Giubbonari, Rome, mentioned in his posthumous
inventory in 1671 and again in the inventory of his bequests in 1672: n. 374) Un quadretto in pietra di p.mi
Uno et 1 ó di Un S. Fran.co che riceve l’Estimate con Cornice di Pero, mano del Mola 40;
By descent to his nephew, Maffeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (1631-1685);
By decent until, Principessa Anna Corsini Barberini (1840-1911), Palazzo sul Prato, Florence, mentioned
in her inventory in c. 1911: n. 94, S. Francesco (sull’alabastro). Salvator Rosa. Altezza m. 0.31 x 0.24. L 100;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, December 9, 1994, lot 53;
Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd, London, 1995;
Acquired by a private collector;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 31 January 2013-01 February 2013, n°48;
Private collection, Paris.
Literature
M. Aronberg Lavin, Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art, New York 1975,
Section II, p.319, IV. INV.71, no.561 and p.351, IV. HERED.72, no.374
F. Petrucci, Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666). Materia e colore nella pittura del '600, Rome 2012, pp.338, cat.
no. B77, reproduced in colour p.192, fig.138
