Lot 170: - Giovanni Battista Ramenghi called il Bagnacavallo Junior , Bologna 1521 - 1604 The holy family with Saint Anne and the infant Saint John the Baptist oil on panel

oil on panel

measurements note 96.5 by 77.4 cm.; 38 by 30 1/2 in.

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, 30 November 1973, lot 49, for £3,000, where acquired by the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The composition is based, with numerous differences, on a design by Raphael, a workshop copy of which is in Vienna, Albertina (see J.Meyer Zur Capellen, Raphael, vol. II, Münster 2003, pp. 247-8, no. A8). Among the many alterations, the artist has here changed the physiognomies of the characters markedly, along with the positioning of St. Elizabeth, and he has added the figures of St. Joseph and the other male in the background.