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Ippolito Scarsella, called Scarsellino
Rest on the Flight to Egypt
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Property from the Estate of Nelson Shanks
Ippolito Scarsella, called Scarsellino
Ferrara circa 1550 - 1620
Rest on the Flight to Egypt
oil on copper
copper: 9 by 11¾ in.; 22.9 by 29.8 cm.
framed: 16½ by 19 in.; 41.9 by 48.3 cm.
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Anonymous Sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 7 April 1988, lot 9;
There acquired.
There acquired.
F. Moro, Emilia Pittrice. Tableaux et dessins bolonais du XVIIeme siècle. Dipinti e disegni bolognesi del XVII secolo, Galerie Tarantino, Paris 2007, p. 21, reproduced fig. 12;
M. Novelli, Scarsellino, Milan, 2008, p. 327, cat. no. 256, reproduced p. 260.
M. Novelli, Scarsellino, Milan, 2008, p. 327, cat. no. 256, reproduced p. 260.
This painting on copper is an autograph variant of a composition of the same dimensions now in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (inv. S 1322), which was purchased in 1656 by Pope Alexander VII Chigi in Rome.1
1. See Novelli 2008, cat. no. 29.