Lot 2095 D α

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli - The Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and Saint Francis of Assisi

Auction 1175 - overview Cologne
05.06.2021, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th to 19th C.
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.250 € (incl. premium)
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Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

The Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and Saint Francis of Assisi

Black chalk, brown ink and wash on paper, mounted on thin cardboard. 32.8 x 21.7 cm.
Framed under glass..
Inscribed lower centre: Romanelli.

The attribution to Romanelli was first suggested by Dr. Jörg Merz in the catalogue for the exhibition of the Weld-Blundell collection in Liverpool and London in 1998.

Provenance

Christie´s, South Kensington 17.12. 1998, lot 56A. - Christie´s, London 17.7.2014, lot 1014. Auction: The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection for the Barbara Johnson Foundation. - Italian private collection.

Literature

X. Brooke: Mantegna to Rubens. The Weld-Blundell Collection, exhib. cat. of Walker Art Gallery Liverpool and The British Museum, London 1998, p. 101.

Exhibitions

Royal Palace of Warsaw: The Masters of Drawing, Drawings from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 2010-2011, p. 158.