Carlo Saraceni
Adoration of the Shepherds
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
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Carlo Saraceni
Venice 1579 - 1620
Adoration of the Shepherds
bears false Adam Elsheimer signature lower left on rock: AE.
oil on copper
copper: 14 ¼ by 11 ½ in.; 36.2 by 29.2 cm
framed: 23 by 20 ½ in.; 58.4 by 52.1 cm
Possibly Agostino Chigi (1634-1705), Prince of Farnese, Campagnano, and Albano, by 1658 (inv. no. 26: "Un Presepio in Rame finto di notte alto p[al]mi 1 1/2 in circa con cornice di pero nera dello scolaro di Carlo Venetiano.");
Art market, London;
Private collection, France, by 2009 and until at least 2014;
Acquired by the present owner, by 2015.
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Carlo Saraceni, un veneziano tra Roma e l'Europa, 1579-1620, 29 November 2013 - 2 March 2014, no. 50 (lent from a private collection).
E. Acanfora, in Carlo Saraceni, un veneziano tra Roma e l'Europa, 1579-1620, exhibition catalogue, M.G. Aurigemma (ed.), Rome 2013, pp. 278-281, cat. no. 50, reproduced.
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