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Lot 191: GIUSEPPE BOTTANI

Est: $40,000 USD - $60,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 26, 2012

Item Overview

Description

CREMONA 1717 - 1784 MANTUA
THE INCREDULITY OF SAINT THOMAS
oil on canvas
39 1/4 by 24 in; 99.5 by 61 cm

Artist or Maker

Literature

Catalogue des tableaux de S.M. l'Impératrice fait à la Malmaison le 26 prairial an 13 [15 Juin 1805], no. 30;
Inventaire après décès de l'impératrice Joséphine à Malmaison, 1814 (published by S. Grandjean, Paris 1964), no. 962;
Partage des tableaux de la galerie de Malmaison: prince Eugène, July 1814;
A. Pougetoux, La Collection de Peintures de L'Impératrice Joséphine, Paris 2003, pp. 74-75, cat. no. 11, reproduced (as Pompeo Batoni).

Provenance

Possibly Marchese Andrea Gerini;
Probably Empress Joséphine, Château de La Malmaison;
Probably by inheritance to her son, Prince Eugène de Beauharnais;
Probably Sale, "Vente mobilière du Château de Malmaison," 31 May - 16 June 1829, lot 671 (as by "Pompeo de Sintoni");
There acquired by Monsieur Debourges, Mayor of Rueil.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US