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Lot 18

Giovanni Battista Pittoni
(Venice 1687-1767)
The Immaculate Conception with Saints Joseph and Anthony unframed

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Venice 1687-1767)

The Immaculate Conception with Saints Joseph and Anthony
oil on canvas, shaped top
56.2 x 29.1cm (22 1/8 x 11 7/16in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
John Inglis, Lord Glencorse (1810-1891), Lord Justice-General of Scotland (according to a label on the reverse, 'Lord President Inglis')
R.H. Bamberger, by whom sold to the following
With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, where purchased by
C.L.Loyd, 5 April 1961, by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 2007, lot 216

Literature
F. Zava Boccazzi, Pittoni. L'opera completa, Venice, 1979, p. 131, no. 71, fig. 479
The Loyd Collection of Pictures and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge near Wantage, Berkshire, London, 1967, p. 36, no. 54
The Loyd Collection of Pictures and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge near Wantage, Berkshire, London, 1991, p. 23, no. 54 ill.

In her catalogue entry for the work, Boccazzi suggests a dating of the first half of the 1750s and draws comparison with two small works on paper, now in a private collection, Lombardy (see Boccazzi, ibid, p. 135, cat. nos 85 and 86). She also notes that this is the only example of an Immaculate Conception by the artist.

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