LUCA PENNI (FLORENCE 1500/4-1557 PARIS)

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Lot 151 | LUCA PENNI (FLORENCE 1500/4-1557 PARIS)
LUCA PENNI (FLORENCE 1500/4-1557 PARIS)

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and a donor

oil on panel

30 3/4 x 26 in. (78 x 66 cm.)





Provenance

Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792); his sale, Christie's, London, 9 February 1771 [=3rd day], lot 151 (as Raphael, recorded as sold for 695 gns. to Barratt, but presumably unsold and the same as the painting offered for sale by his heirs at the European Museum, 8 King Street, St. James's, London, from April 1817, lot 246, erroneously described as 'The Virgin with our Saviour, St. Joseph and St. John: truly a divine performance: the late Chevalier Mengs, one of the first Artists of the age, and who studied Raphael in the Vatican from his earliest youth, pronounced it truly an exquisite production of this divine Master', unsold and offered; (†) Christie's, London, 23 January 1819, lot 106, as Raphael, 'The Holy Family: a fine specimen of the grand style of this Master' (unsold).

W. Jamieson Forbes, Bournemouth; Christie's, London, 15 November 1946, lot 54, as Follower of Raphael (40 gns., possibly sold to Mrs. Lillie).

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 July 2005, lot 14, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Sir R. Strange, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures...Collected and Drawn, During a Journey of Several Years in Italy, London, 1769, pp. 88-104, as Raphael, where discussed in letters to Strange from Anton Raphael Mengs and M. Mariette.

S. Béguin, 'La Madone Strange de Luca Penni', Arte Collezionismo Conservazione: Scritti in onore di Marco Chiarini, Florence, 2004, p. 188 ff. (illustrated).

D. Cordellier, Luca Penni. Un disciple de Raphaël à Fontainebleau, exhibition catalogue, Paris, pp. 15-16, 23, 190, cat. 87, fig. 11.

D. Cordellier, ‘De Gênes à Paris: Luca Penni, dit Le Romain, peintre’, Peindre en France à la Renaissance, II: Fontainebleau et son rayonnement, Milan, 2012, pp. 38-40, pl. 1, fig. 13.



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