Lot 42: Melchiorre Gherardini (1607-1685)

Saint George and the dragon, with a Cardinal Saint adoring the Madonna and Child beyond oil on panel, in a feigned oval, unframed 97/8 x 71/2 in. (25 x 19 cm.) PROVENANCE Mrs. K.M. Bell; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1982, lot 126, as 'Circle of Vincenzo Carducho'. NOTES This picture is a bozzetto for Gherardini's slightly larger picture of the same subject in the Mus‚e des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (inv. no. 975.4.92; see A. Brejon de Lavergn‚e and N. Volle, R‚pertoire des peintures Italiennes du XVIIe siŠcle. Mus‚es de France, Paris, 1988, p. 164, illustrated).