Lot n° 46
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1500 - 2000
EUR
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RENI GUIDO (School of) - Lot 46
RENI GUIDO (School of)
Bologna 1575 - id; 1642
The Virgin and Child blessing little Saint John - Baptist
Oil on copper (small restorations).
H. 26 - W.20,5 cm
Carved and gilded wood frame with a floral scroll motif (small accidents)
Related to the composition of similar dimensions (24.5 x 19.2 cm) kept in the Louvre Museum from Pope Paul V Borghese (ca. 1606 - 1607) before entering the collections of Louis XIV (1685) (Cf. Stéphane Loire, Italian School, 17th century.
1. Bologna. Guido Reni (The Guide) pp.282 - 286 - NMR 1996).
Document: A letter dated 27 December 1984 from the Florentine art historian Alessandro Conti (1945 - 1994), considers the above version to be better than the one in the Louvre, and closer to the missing original.
of Guido Reni. He suggests that the author of this "buona copia eseguita"...
da un maestro bolognese " influenced by the chromaticism of Guerchin
could be the Bolognese painter Emilio Savonanzi (1580 - 1660).
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