Lot 218: Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (Fossombrone 1589-1655/9 Pesaro)

Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (Fossombrone 1589-1655/9 Pesaro)
Susannah and the Elders
oil on canvas
48 x 71 5/8 in. (122 x 182 cm.)

Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 1996, lot 42, when acquired by the present owner ($46,000).

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Guerrieri was a native of Fossombrone, where he spent much of his career. Although clearly under the influence of Caravaggio, whose works he would have seen during sojourns to Rome in 1606 and 1612, the artist later seems to have had an awareness of the work of Orazio Gentileschi. Guerrieri worked for Marcantonio Borghese in his palazzo in the Campo Marzio in Rome, in 1615, and may have been in contact with Tanzio da Varallo during one of the Lombard painter's trips south. Professor Federico Zeri confirmed the attribution after inspecting the original.