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Francesco Foschi(Ancona 1710-1780 Rome)Travellers before a river in a winter landscape
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Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Lisa Greaves
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Francesco Foschi (Ancona 1710-1780 Rome)
oil on canvas
64.5 x 120.9cm (25 3/8 x 47 5/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Carlo Gambarini (antiquarian and librarian of the Grand Duke of Darmstadt) from the artist in the 1770s
The Collection of the Grand Duke of Darmstadt
Grossherzoglichen Museum of Darmstadt, 1820
Private Collection, Germany
Private Collection, Switzerland
With Maison d'Art, Monte Carlo, before 1997
Private Collection, UK
Literature
Probably, F.H. Muller, Beschreibung der Gemäldesammlung in dem Grossherzoglichen Museum zu Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 1820, p. 242, no. 598 (as one of a pair with no. 597)
M. Vinci-Corsini, Francesco Foschi, Milan, 2002, p. 186, cat.no. 115, ill, p.121
According to Vinci-Corsini, the present work dates to the mid to late 1770s and is stylistically comparable to The Post Office and Inn in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille (inv. no. P 54). She believes that, given the similar dimensions, The Scolded Child (cat.no.114) is the pendant to the present work and they are the two paintings described in the Darmstadt Museum catalogue in 1820. According to Vinci Corsini, Sybille Ebert-Schifferer of the Hessisches Landesmuseum suggested these were 'either part of a group sold at auction in 1840 or that they were lost when they were placed in storage during the museum's move between 1904-6' (see literature).
