Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Giovanni Martinelli (Montevarchi 1600/4-1659 Florence)
Lot 115

Giovanni Martinelli (Montevarchi 1600/4-1659 Florence)

Roman Charity

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 9,375

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Giovanni Martinelli (Montevarchi 1600/4-1659 Florence)
Roman Charity
oil on canvas
28 ¼ x 22 7/8 in. (71.7 x 58.1 cm.); and another picture, Follower of Giovanni Martinelli, Roman Charity
(2)2

Anonymous sale [Mrs J. Temple, Park Street, London]; Christie's, London, 24 October 1958, lot 2 as 'Valentin' (16 gns.).

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr. Francesca Baldessari for proposing the attribution to Martinelli on the basis of photographs. Dr. Baldessari dates the picture to circa 1647 and compares it with the Madonna del Rosario e santi in the church of San Michele Arcangelo in Biforco, which is signed and dated that year.