Lot 138: ATTRIBUTED TO SEBASTIANO GALEOTTI

ATTRIBUTED TO SEBASTIANO GALEOTTI FLORENCE 1676-1746 VICO THE FINDING OF MOSES oil on canvas, a bozzetto 29.5 by 35.8 cm.; 11 5/8 by 14 1/8 in.

Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses, exh. cat., York 1994, p. 96 under cat. no. 58, where attributed to Sebastiano Galeotti.

With the Lasson Gallery, London, 1968, as Jean-François de Troy, from whom acquired by the present owner

The bozzetto relates to a finished work exhibited in York in 1994 which in the past has been attributed to Carlo Maratti and Andrea Casali (see Literature). The present attribution is due to Alastair Laing who compares the work to Galeotti's Rebecca and Eliezer from the Iliffe collection, Basildon Park (see P. Torriti, L'attività di Sebastiano Galeotti in Liguria, Genoa 1956, p. 16, reproduced plate 6).