Lot 61: Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)

Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)
The Madonna and Child seated with Saint Jerome and the Archangel Michael
oil on panel
22¾ x 26 in. (57.8 x 66 cm.)
with the red wax armorial seal of a prelate of the Ricci family (on the reverse of the panel, twice)

O. Sitwell, 'The Red Folder-I', The Burlington Magazine, 80, 1942, p. 87.
J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 68.

(Probably) Bishop Francesco Ricci (1679-1755), subsequently cardinal (according to a seal on the reverse, see below)
Stated to have been presented by Signora Bica to Pope Clement XI (Giovanni Franceso Albani, 1649-1721, elected 1700).
His nephew, Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), by whom sold in 1726-7 in Rome at a value of 400 Roman crowns, the equivalent of £100, as part of a larger group of pictures, to
Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (1707-1746), and by descent at Badminton through the latter's brother, Charles, 6th Duke of Beaufort to his great-great-grandson, Henry Charles Fitzroy, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899), by whom sold anonymously; Christie's, London, 18 July 1895, lot 73, as L. da Vinci (240 gns. to the following)
Harry Quilter, Esq., 42 Queen's Gate Gardens, London; Christie's, London, 7 April 1906, lot 95, as L. da Vinci (210 gns. to the following)
Henrik Loeffler, and by descent to the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY (LOTS 50, 51 & 61)

Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, il Giampietrino (active Milan c. 1495-1540)
The Madonna and Child seated with Saint Jerome and the Archangel Michael
oil on panel
22¾ x 26 in. (57.8 x 66 cm.)
with the red wax armorial seal of a prelate of the Ricci family (on the reverse of the panel, twice)