Lot 193: PIETRO SIGISMONDI

PIETRO SIGISMONDI BORN IN LUCCA - ROME BEFORE 1624 SAINT AGNES signed lower right on the parapet: SIGISMVNDUS: FECIT Rome.1601 oil on copper 36.5 by 27.8 cm:, 14 3/8 by 11 in.

Anonymous sale, London, Bonham's, 6 July 2005, lot 9.

Although Lucchese by birth, Sigismondi made his career in Rome, where he painted the present work. His style reflects that of both native Roman painters and the Flemish itinerant landscape painters such as Paul Bril, whose influence in the background of this work is palpable. He painted frescoes in the Palazzetto Mattei in villa Celimontana, and an altarpiece depicting the Madonna and child with saints Nicholas and Filippo Benizzi for the church of San. Niccolò in Arcione.