Lot 158: Placido Costanzi (Rome 1702- 1759)

Justice and Temperance triumphant over Vice oil on canvas 241/4 x 291/4 in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm.) PROVENANCE Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (+); Sale, Sloan & Co., Washington, D.C., 30 March 1960, lot 244. Anthony Morris Clark (+); Christie's, 6 July 1978, lot 25 (œ1,500). with Central Gallery, New York, 1981. Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 30 October 1987, lot 155 (œ6,705), where purchased by the present owner. LITERATURE D. S. Pepper, Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Art. Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 1984, p. 46. N. Spinosa, Exhibition Catalogue, Sebastiano Conca, Gaeta, July-October 1981, p. 274, no. 95a. NOTES The present work is based with slight variations on a picture by Sebastiano Conca now in the Bob Jones University Collection (Pepper, loc. cit, pp. 46-47, no. 46.2, illustrated p. 192; exhibition catalogue, 1985, pp. 274-275, no. 95a). That picture is itself a reduction of two large canvases, each representing a single figure, in Palazzo Lomellini-Balbi-Lambi-Doria, Genoa (see E. Schleier, 'Una decorazione poco nota di Sebastiano Conca a Genoa', Antichit… Viva, 1980, XIX/3, pp. 20-26). The attribution to the present painting to Costanzi was made by Anthony Clark.