Lot 55: GIUSEPPE BAZZANI (Reggio Emilia 1701-1780)

The Road to Emmaus (?) oil on canvas 19 5/8 x 47 1/8 in. (49.8 x 119.7 cm.) PROVENANCE Heimann, Los Angeles. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. LITERATURE F. Caroli, Giuseppe Bazzani. L'opera completa, Milan, 1988, p. 92, no. 80, illustrated. NOTES Caroli ( loc. cit. ) dates the present work to the early 1740s and records as its pendant a Christ at supper with Simon the Pharisee. SALESROOM NOTICE Please note the additional literature for the present lot: C. Perina, 'Some unpublished paintings by Giuseppe Bazzani', The Art Bulletin, 46, June 1946, pp. 227-228 and fig. 2. C. Perina, Giuseppe Bazzani, 1690-1769, Florence, 1970, pp. 23 and 59, and pl. 44. Please also note that the present lot was not in the Fogg Art Museum as stated in the Catalogue.