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Lot 46

Simone Pignoni
(Florence 1611-1698)
An Allegory of Purity

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

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Simone Pignoni (Florence 1611-1698)

An Allegory of Purity
oil on canvas
58 x 48.5cm (22 13/16 x 19 1/8in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 9 July 1999, lot 209

Literature
F. Baldassari, Simone Pignone (Firenze, 1611- 1689), Catalogo delle Opere, Florence, Artema, 2008, cat. no. 19, p. 95

The composition of the present work is extremely close to Pignoni's Santa Reparata now in a private collection in Florence (ibid. p. 94, cat. no. 18). However, the addition of the lily allows this painting to be identified as an Allegory of Purity. In her catalogue entry Baldassari suggests a slightly later date for the present Allegory in comparison with his Santa Reparata, given the even softer treatment of the figure and the greater degree of sfumato.

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