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CORRADO GIAQUINTO (1703–1766)

Saint Cecilia

Year early 1750s
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.7 x 49.5 cm 25 7/8 x 19 1/2 in

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Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 19 March 1982, lot 47 (as Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani);
Dr. Stephen Pepper, New York (as Corrado Giaquinto);
Private collection, Rome.

Literature

G. L. Hersey, in A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650 – 1750, exh. cat., New Haven 1987, pp. 295-296, 322-4, cat. no. 47, reproduced on p. 323.

Exhibitions / Fairs

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650 – 1750, 9 September – 29 November 1987;

Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650 – 1750, 13 January – 13 March 1988;

Kansas City, Nelson Atkins Museum, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650 – 1750, 30 March – 12 June 1988.

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