PIER FRANCESCO MOLA

1612 - 1666

Saint Francis receiving the stigmata

c.1650 - 1655

Oil on marble; inscribed bottom right with the inventory number ‘94’

34.6 x 25.7 cm

Provenance:

Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Palazzo Giubbori, 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 ½ di Un S. Fran.co che riceve l’Estimate con Cornice di Pero, mano del Mola 40; thence by descent to his nephew, Maffeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (1631-1685); 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; with Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd., London, 1995; there acquired by a private collector; anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 31 Jan. 2013 - 1 Feb. 2013, lot 48; private collection, Paris, from whom acquired by Lullo • Pampoulides

GIUSEPPE RUSCONI
1687 - 1737

Beatrice Caracciolo
Commissioned 18 July 1730

Bronze; inscribed ‘D. BEATRIX CARACCIOLO / DVCISSA MARTINAE / OBIT DIE XII IVNII MDCCIII/ AETATIS ANNOR LXXXVII MENS VII DIER XX’ on the gilt-bronze cartouche to the front of the base; and ‘ROMA’ to the reverse
84 cm. high

Provenance:
commissioned by Cardinal Innico Caracciolo (1642-1730) on 18 July 1730; by descent to his nephew, Don Francesco Maria Caracciolo (1674-1752), 9th duke of Martina and 9th Count of Buccino; by descent until the last branch of the Caracciolo Cicinelli family, Don Gennaro Caracciolo Cicinelli (1789-1853); by descent to Don Lorenzo d’Ardia (1834-1905), 10th Prince of Cursi and 10th Duke of Grottaglie; by descent within the d’Ardia family; acquired by a private collector, United Kingdom in 2018; from whom acquired by Lullo • Pampoulides in 2022

Sold to the Toledo Museum of Art.

JULES PIERRE VAN BIESBROECK

1873 - 1965

Launch of the Argo

1889

Oil on canvas

271 x 550 cm

Provenance:

Private collection, Belgium, until discovered in 2021

Exhibited:

Paris Salon, Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1890, n. 2342

 (as Le lancement d’«Argo»). Awarded a Mention honorable

LUCA GIORDANO
1634 - 1705

Penitent Magdalene
c.1660 - 1665

Oil on canvas
76 x 63.5 cm

Provenance:
Wunderkammer S.A., Lugano; from whom acquired by the present owner in 2000

Sold to the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor.

LUISA ROLDÁN, CALLED LA ROLDANA
1652 - 1706

Madonna dnd Child

c.1690 - 1706
Polychrome terracotta 41 cm high.

Provenance:
Almost certainly Federico García Sanchiz (1886 - 1964), before 1963; private collection Padua; acquired on the Florentine art market by the present owner in April 2022.

Sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

LAVINIA FONTANA

Bologna, 1552 – 1614

Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni

Oil on canvas; inscribed ‘LUCIA BONAS: A D,GARZO[N]/ANNO ÆTATs SUE/XXVIII[I]’; in a 16th century Emilian giltwood frame
113.5 x 87.5 cm.

Provenance:
Florence, 13 May 1914, lot. 49: Lavinia Fontana (attributed to), «Ritratto di Donna Lucia Bonasi di Carzo» (Portrait of Lady Lucia Bonasi di Carzo). Dress in black velvet with white collar, sitting before a table with musical instruments. Wood gilded frame with incised decoration. Canvas 1.12 x 0.85 m;
Private collection, Madrid;
Madrid, Subastas Segre, Pintura antigua online, 18 May 2021, lot 98.

Sold to the National Gallery of Art, Washington

AGOSTINO CORSINI

Bologna, 1688 – Naples, 1772

Saint Jerome

1734

Terracotta,

64.5 cm high

Provenance:

The terracotta presentation model submitted by the artist to the director of San Giovanni in Laterano building works, Alessandro Galilei, in 1734;

Private collection, Turin since 1970, and by descent.

Sold to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles

JACOPO DA PONTE, CALLED JACOPO BASSANO and FRANCESCO DA PONTE, CALLED FRANCESCO BASSANO THE YOUNGER

Bassano del Grappa, c.1510 – 1592

Bassano del Grappa, c.1549 – Venice, 1592

Moses striking the Water from the Rock

c.1575/ 1578

Oil on canvas

99 x 154.5 cm

Sold to the Dallas Museum of Art

JACOPO DA PONTE, CALLED JACOPO BASSANO

Bassano del Grappa, c. 1510 – 1592

The Adoration of the Shepherds

c. 1562-3

Oil on canvas; in a parcel-gilt carved 16th century ‘Sansovino’ frame.

108.5 x 68 cm.

Provenance:

Private collection United Kingdom, since at least the 1920s, and by descent;

Bonham’s, London, 3rd July 2019, lot 60 (as “workshop of Francesco Giambattista da Ponte, called Francesco Bassano).

Sold to Private Collection USA

LUCA GIORDANO

Naples, 1634 – 1705

Christ Among the Doctors

c. 1685

Fresco on lime; on a wicker support

110 cm. diameter

Provenance:

Commissioned by Andrea del Rosso (1640-1715), Florence, while the artist was a guest at his home, circa 1685, listed in their inventory of 1689, thence by descent.

Private collection, Florence, where acquired by the present owner.

Exhibited:

Paris, Petit Palais, Luca Giordano (1634-1705) The triumph of the Neapolitan painting, 14 Nov. 2019 - 23 Feb. 2020

Sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

PAOLO GUIDOTTI, CALLED CAVALIER BORGHESE

Lucca, c. 1560 – Rome, 1629

Crucified Christ triumphant over Death, Flesh and Devil

1621

Oil on walnut panel; inscribed to the back: PAULUS BURGHESIUS GUI/DOTTUS. V.I.D. EQUES. CHR/ISTI/ AURETAM MILITIAE MILIUS. / ALMA URBIS…/ F. i62i.

41 x 24 cm.

Provenance:

Probably commissioned by Maffeo Barberini, future Pope Urban VIII, in 1621;

by whom given to his brother, Carlo, in 1623;

Taddeo Barberini until 1648/49;

Maffeo Barberini from 1655 until his death in 1686;

Francesco Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, in 1730;

Private collection, L’Aquila, before 1957;

Private collection, Rome, until 2017.

Sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

DOMENICO FETTI

1591/2, Rome (?) – 1623, Venice

Melancholia

c. 1615

Oil on canvas

149.5 x 113cm.

Provenance:
Jeanne-Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue († 1736) or M. Bellou (?);

Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre, marquis de Lassay, at least between 1729 and 1752;

Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Dutartre (1714-1804), Trésorier des bâtiments, his (†) sale, Bizet, Paris, 19 March 1804, lot 3;

De Castres (from sale catalogue, Decastres), his sale, Jaluzot, Paris, 11 April 1811, lot 59;

Acquired by the Marquis de Gouvello, château de Kerlevénan, circa 1850; By descent until sold on the 3 December 1988, Christie’s Monte Carlo, lot 24 (as attributed to Domenico Fetti);

6 July 2017, Sotheby’s London, lot 148 (as Domenico Fetti and workshop).

Sold to the Art Institute of Chicago

GUILLAUME I COUSTOU

1677, Lyon – 1746, Paris

Hercules on the Pyre

c. 1702-3

Terracotta sketch

40 cm. long; 27 cm. high.

Provenance:

Private collection Paris, before 1977 when published by Francois Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries – The Reign of Louis XIV, Vol. I A-F, 1977, p. 358, Fig. 7b2

Sold to a private collector, USA

ANDREA GASTALDI

1826 – 1889, Turin

The Siege of Tortona

c. 1866-67

Charcoal, highlighted with white colour, on light brown paper

193 x 173 cm.

Sold to the National Gallery of Art, Washington

FRANCESCO ALBANI

1578 – 1660, Bologna

The Assumption of Saint Mary Magdalene

c. 1630-40

Oil on copper

42 x 27.5 cm.

Sold to the Saint Louis Art Museum

BARTOLOMEO CAVAROZZI

1587, Viterbo – 1625, Rome

Still Life

c. 1615-1620

Oil on canvas, inscribed with an inventory number to the reverse ‘463’

117.6 x 87.5cm.

Provenance:

Wilhelm Itzinger (1835 – 1888);

His sale at Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 21 April 1903, described as Antonio de Pereda;

Benoit Oppenheim (1842–1931) and by descent to his son,

Rudolph Oppenheim (1871–1922) and by descent to his daughter,

Louise Mary Oppenheim (1896 - 1982) and Hugo James Hardy (1877 - 1936) and by descent to their son,

Rudolph Hardy (1923–2016).

Sold to a private European foundation

SIMON VOUET

Paris, 1590 - 1649

Apotheosis of Saint Francis of Paola

c. 1625-1626

Oil on canvas

65 x 48 cm.

Sold to a private collection, Europe

ANTONIO SUSINI

Florence, 1558 - 1624

Cristo Morto

Cast from a model by Giambologna (1529 - 1608),

c. 1600

Bronze; on a modern ebony veneered base

31.5 cm. high, 26.5 cm. wide

70 cm. high, overall

Sold to a private collector

JOSEPH-DÉSIRÉ ODEVAERE

Bruges, 1776 – Brussels, 1830

Lady in traditional Roman dress, half length, before the Villa Medici

Oil on canvas, signed and dated “J. ODEVAERE ROMA MDCCCVIII”, and resigned ‘J: Odevaere’ lower left.

81 x 57 cm.

Exhibited:

Exposition publique de l’Académie Imperiale de France à Rome, Rome, Villa Medici, 1808.

Sold to the Groeningen Museum, Bruges

SPANISH OR HISPANO–PHILIPPINE

Crucified Christ

Second half 17th century

Fruitwood and painted glass

43 cm. high

Sold to the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

ALFRED DRURY RA

1856 – 1944

Saint Michael, a full-scale model for the figure in Portland stone by Alfred Drury above the summit of the main entrance arch to the Victoria and Albert Museum

c. 1905-6

Patinated plaster

82 in. (208.3 cm.) high, overall

Sold to a private collector, Europe

LOUIS-FRANÇOIS ROUBILIAC

1702 - 1762

Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (and 6th Earl of Montgomery), FRS

c. 1749

Depicted facing to sinister; on an integral square marble socle carved with the Pembroke coat of arms and inscribed ‘VNG. GP. SERVERAY’.
24 5/8 in. (62.5 cm.) high

32¼ in. (82 cm.) high overall, including socle

Provenance:

Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, by descent to his son

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke;

Placed on the monument to the 9th Earl of Pembroke in St. Mary’s Church, Wilton, Wiltshire, before 3 July, 1754 (when seen by Dr. Richard Pococke)

The bust and parts of the monument moved to the new Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Wilton, Wiltshire in 1845;

Bust sold (following the grant by the church court of a faculty for removal) by

17th Earl of Pembroke (heir-at-law of the 9th Earl of Pembroke, and therefore owner of the bust) in 1997 (via Sotheby’s) to

Professor Ian Craft, by whom sold, 2005, to

Private Collection, London.

Exhibited:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in the Sculpture in Britain Galleries since 2005.

Sold to a private collector, USA

MICHELE ENRICO VAN LINT

Rome, 1767 – 1828 (?)

Portrait of Ranieri Tommasi

1801

Terracotta; inscribed along the front; signed and dated ‘M. VAN.LINT/ F.A. 1801’

27 cm. high

Sold to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

ANDREA VACCARO

Naples, 1604 - 1670

Christ and the Adulteress

c. 1630

Oil on canvas

124 x 179 cm.

Sold to the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki