Lot 171: LORENZO GARBIERI | Saint Anthony Abbot burying Saint Paul the hermit

oil on canvas

 71.5 by 55 cm.; 28 1/8  by 21 5/8  in.

oil on canvas

Wiesbaden, Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Italienische Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, May – June 1935, no. 53 (as Lodovico Carracci).

M. Oretti, manuscript no. Ms.B. 104, Biblioteca Comunale, Bologna, written in the second half of the eighteenth century (as manner of or school of Ludovico Carracci, in Casa Marsigli, Bologna);
A. von Schneider, Aus Der Sammlung Robert Scholz-Forni, Hamburg 1937, p. 38, cat. no. 6 (as Lodovico Carracci); 
H. Bodmer, Lodovico Carracci, Burg 1939, pp. 85–86, reproduced fig. 76 (as Ludovico Carracci);
M. Goering, 'Die Sammlung Scholz–Forni', in Pantheon, May 1940, no. 5, p. 118 (as Lodovico Carracci);
E. Calbi and D. Scaglietti Kelescian, Marcello Oretti e il Patrimonio Artistico Privato Bolognese, Bologna 1984, p. 69 (as Manner of or school of Ludovico Carracci);
G. Faigenbaum, Lodovico Carracci: A study of his later career and a catalogue of his paintings, Princeton 1984, p. 232, cat. no. 24, reproduced fig. 31 (as Lodovico Carracci);
A. Vannugli, 'Ludovico Carracci: un'Erminia ritrovata e un riesame delle committenze romane', in Storia dell'Arte, 1987, no. 59, p. 54 (as Ludovico Carracci);
A. Brogi, 'Lorenzo Garbieri: Un "incamminato" fra romanzo sacro e romanzo nero', in Paragone, May 1989, p. 9, and footnotes 22 and 23, pp. 22–23, reproduced fig. 13 (as Lorenzo Garbieri);
E. Negro, M. Pirondini, La Scuola dei Carracci, Dall'Accademia alla Bottega di Ludovico, Modena 1994, p. 178 (as Lorenzo Garbieri);
A. Brogi, Ludovico Carracci, Bologna 2001, p. 273, cat. no. R52 (as Lorenzo Garbieri).

Probably, Casa Marsigli, Via di San Mamolo, Bologna, in the second half of the eighteenth–century;
Robert Scholz-Forni, Hamburg, by 1935;
By descent within the family of the present owner for three generations.