Lot 77: Alessandro Tiarini (Bologna 1577-1668)

The Virgin and Child with Saint Romualdo
oil on panel
9 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (23.2 x 18.9 cm.)
in an Italian seventeenth century carved giltwood frame

We are grateful to Professor Daniele Benati for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs. He regards it as an autograph replica of the picture in the Pinacoteca Nationale, Bologna (see D. Benati, Alessandro Tiarini. L'opera pittorica completa e i disegni, Milan, 2001, II, no. 212, pp. 132-3) and dates the present work to the 1630s.

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