
Christ in Agony
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Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo and Assistant
Venice circa 1485–1547 Rome
Christ in Agony
inscribed in a late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century hand on a label on the reverse of the panel: [P]ittura… fra Sebast… del Piom… / Prezz… fiorin… Sessant…
oil on poplar panel
unframed: 34.7 x 25.8 cm.; 13⅝ x 10⅛ in.
framed: 45.9 x 37 cm.; 18⅛ x 14⅝ in.
J. Hartman;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 19 April 2000, lot 26 (as circle of Sebastiano Luciani, called Sebastiano del Piombo).
P. Baker-Bates, '"Uno Nuovo Modo di Colorire in Pietra": Technical Experimentation in the Art of Sebastiano del Piombo', in Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe, P. Baker-Bates and E.M. Calvillo (eds), Leiden 2018, pp. 60–61 and n. 48 (as not autograph, without having seen the picture firsthand);
C. Barbieri, 'Un inedito Ecce Homo di Sebastiano: fortuna iconografica di una contenuta Passione', in Valori Tattili, no. 19, 2022, p. 5, no. 6.
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