Live Auction 7610Important Old Master & British Pictures Day Sale Including Property From The Collection Of The Princely House Of Liechtenstein
Studio of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
Lot 122

Studio of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Closed9 July 2008

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GBP 37,250

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Studio of Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-1642)
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
oil on canvas
54 x 37¼ in. (137.3 x 94.5 cm.)

(Possibly) Johann Adam I Andreas, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf (1657-1712), and by descent to
Josef Wenzel Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf (1696-1772), published as being in his gallery by V. Fanti in 1767 (loc. cit), and by descent to
Franz Josef I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf (1726-1781), published as being in his gallery by J. Dallinger in 1780 (loc. cit.), and by descent at the Garden Palace at Rossau (where recorded by Falke in 1873 and 1885, loc. cit.), until April 1927, when moved to the Liechtenstein City Palace, Vienna, until December 1944, when moved to Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, until the present.

Specialist note

The composition derives from Reni's slightly smaller picture of the same subject, datable to 1635, in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin, and is recorded by Pepper (loc. cit.) as a copy. On the basis of photographs, Professor Andrea Emiliani (to whom we are grateful) has tentatively suggested an attribution to Simone Cantarini who was active in Reni's studio in the 1630s. Another version of the subject (Pepper, op. cit., no. 156, copy 4) was similarly given to Cantarini by Pepper at the time of its sale at Christie's, New York, 22 March 1978, lot 50.