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Attributed to Simone Cantarini (Oropezza 1612-1648 Verona)
Lot 124

Attributed to Simone Cantarini (Oropezza 1612-1648 Verona)

The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist

Closed16 July 2010

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GBP 6,250

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Attributed to Simone Cantarini (Oropezza 1612-1648 Verona)
The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist
red chalk, oval, made up right and left
6¾ x 9½ in. (17.5 x 24.5 cm.)

Probably the Duc de Tallard (according to an inscription on the verso of the mount); his sale, Paris, 22 March 1756, lot 640 ('Simon Cantarini, dit le Pesarese. Deux idem [Compositions], au craion rouge'), 16 livres to Silvestre;
Jacques-Augustin de Silvestre; his sale, F. L. Regnault-Delalande, Paris, 28 February 1811, part of lot 256 (15 francs).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 July 1993, lot 63.

Specialist note

Related to a painting of the same subject datable to circa 1640-1642 (Moscow, Pushkin Museum).