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PEDRO MACHUCA (TOLEDO C.1495-C.1550 GRANADA)

Lot 112
04.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 63 000
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Lot 112 | PEDRO MACHUCA (TOLEDO C.1495-C.1550 GRANADA)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
PEDRO MACHUCA (TOLEDO C.1495-C.1550 GRANADA)
The Baptism of Christ
oil and gold on panel, unframed
39 ¼ x 28 in. (99.6 x 71.1 cm.)




Provenance

'Herrn C.F.', Milan; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 26 August 1939 (=4th day), lot 1599, as 'Northern Italian, 16th Century', illustrated (unsold).
Han Coray (1880-1974), Erlenbach, as 'Bramantino'.
with Giuseppe Bellesi, London.
with Frederick Mont, New York, by 1965.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 30 November 1968 (=3rd day), lot 3173, as 'Andrea Sabatini'.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 12 June 1970 (=1st day), lot 77, as 'Andrea Sabatini' (unsold).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 21 June 1974 (=1st day), lot 73, as 'Andrea Sabatini', where acquired by the father of the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2017, lot 123, where acquired by the present owner (£75,000).



Literature

P. Giusti and P. Leone de Castris, 'Forastieri e regnicoli', La pittura moderna a Napoli nel primo Cinquecento, Naples, 1985, p. 44, pl. 2.4, and p. 65, under note 16, dated to circa 1518.
N. Dacos, 'Pedro Machuca', in Andrea da Salerno nel Rinascimento Meridionale, ed. G. Previtali, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1986, p. 248, refuting an attribution to Machuca.
P. Giusti and P. Leone de Castris, Pittura del Cinquecento a Napoli: 1510-1540 forastieri e regnicoli, Naples, 1988, pp. 37-8, 42 and 54, under note 16, fig. 32.
P. Leone de Castris, 'Pedro Machuca: cenni biografici' in Pedro Machuca a Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1992, p. 30.
R. López Guzmán and G. Espinosa Spínola, Pedro Machuca, Granada, 2001, p. 71, doubting the attribution to Machuca.
P. Leone de Castris, Andrea Sabatini da Salerno: Il Raffaello di Napoli, Naples, 2017, p. 126, note 12.
A. Bisceglia, in Otro Renacimiento. Artistas españoles en Nápoles a comienzos del Cinquecento, eds. R. Naldi and A. Zezza, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 2022, p. 256, under no. 43.
A. Bisceglia, in Gli Spagnoli a Napoli. Il Rinascimento meridionale, eds. R. Naldi and A. Zezza, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 2023, p. 260, under no. 36.
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