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Giacomo and Giulio Francia

Bologna 1486 – 1557 Bologna / 1486 – Bologna – 1557

The Holy Family in front of a city. Circa 1518/20

Oil on panel. 67 x 57 cm (26 ⅜ x 22 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Giacomo and Giulio Francia. The Holy Family in front of a city. Circa 1518/20.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 60,000

USD 44,600

 

- 67,000

Sold for:

25,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on panel. 67 x 57 cm (26 ⅜ x 22 ½ in.). On the reverse remains of a seal. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Hermann Voss, Berlin, dated 11 January 1928, in which the work is described as "eine echte und charakteristische Arbeit des Giacomo Francia“ (in the original) / "Dem schließt sich Wilhelm von Bode, Berlin, 11. Januar (1928) an". On the reverse with wooden support lattice. Framed

Related literature: H. Mireur: Dictionnaire des Ventes d’Art, VI, Paris, p. 106. In a frame after a Venetian example of the 16th century. We would like to thank Andrea De Marchi, University of Florence, for valuable assistance and for the confirmation of authenticity on the basis of photographs. We would also like to thank Andrea Ugolini for the assistance..

1898 collection of the Russian statesman and diplomat Baron Arthur Pavlovich Mohrenheim (1824–1906), Paris / 1928/29 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory list of pictures (1950), no. 93 (1928), previous owner "Jonas“, 2.700 RM / book inventory no. 330 (1929) as "Ital. Madonnenbild (Francia)“, 2.700 RM

Auction catalogue: Catalogue de tableaux anciens et objets d’art et d’ameublement: collection de S. Exc. le baron de Morenheim, Paris, Drouot, 21 March 1898, lot 36 / Andrea Ugolini: La dinastia di Francesco Francia, in: Arte Cristiana, 1997, p. 112-113, ill. 4 / Emilio Negro and Nicosetta Roio: Francesco Francia e la sua scuola, Modena 1998, p. 290, no. 242 / Andrea Ugolini: Per un catalogo di Giacomo Francia, con alcuni inediti della sua bottega, in: Strenna storica bolognese, vol. 64 (2014), p. 447–458, plate J 23