Lot 26: FRANCESCO FRANCIA - (BOLOGNA C. 1450-1517)

FRANCESCO FRANCIA
(BOLOGNA C. 1450-1517)
Saint Barbara
signed ‘francia aurifex’ (lower left)
oil on panel 25 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (64.1 x 47.7 cm.)

PROVENANCE:
Contessa Giulia Seghizzi Coccapani, Marchesa di Spezzano e di Fiorano,
Modena, by 1872.
Pietro Foresti (1854-1926), Palazzo Foresti, Carpi.
Benigno Cristoforo Crespi (1833-1920), Milan, by 1907; his sale, Galerie
George S. Petit, Paris, 4 June 1914, lot 22, where acquired by
James Stillman (1850-1918), New York, and by descent to
Charles Chauncey Stillman (1877-1926), New York; (†), his sale, American Art
Association, New York, 3 February 1927, lot 30 ($21,000), where acquired by
Elizabeth G. Stillman (d. 1956), New York, and by inheritance by 1957 to
Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989), New York.