Lot 3000: Giacomo and Giulio Francia, The Holy Family in front of a city

Giacomo and Giulio Francia, The Holy Family in front of a city, Oil on panel, Circa 1518/20, On the reverse remains of a seal, 26 3/8 x 22 1/2 in., On the reverse with wooden support lattice

Auction catalogue: Catalogue de tableaux anciens et objets d’art et d’ameublement: collection de S. Exc. le baron de Morenheim, Paris, Drouot, 21 March 1898, lot 36 / Andrea Ugolini: La dinastia di Francesco Francia, in: Arte Cristiana, 1997, p. 112-113, ill. 4 / Emilio Negro and Nicosetta Roio: Francesco Francia e la sua scuola, Modena 1998, p. 290, no. 242 / Andrea Ugolini: Per un catalogo di Giacomo Francia, con alcuni inediti della sua bottega, in: Strenna storica bolognese, vol. 64 (2014), p. 447–458, plate J 23

1898 collection of the Russian statesman and diplomat Baron Arthur Pavlovich Mohrenheim (1824–1906), Paris / 1928/29 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin. Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory list of pictures (1950), no. 93 (1928), previous owner "Jonas“, 2.700 RM / book inventory no. 330 (1929) as "Ital. Madonnenbild (Francia)“, 2.700 RM