Catalogue Roberti Fine Art, TEFAF Maastricht 2026 (1) compressed - Flipbook - Page 30
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FRANCESCO RAIBOLINI, CALLED IL FRANCIA
Bologna circa 1450-1517
Saint Barbara
signed lower left on the parapet: francia aurifex
oil on panel
64.1 x 47.7 cm.
painted circa 1505
PROVENANCE
Contessa Giulia Seghizzi Coccapani, Marchesa di Spezzano e di Fiorano, Modena, by 1872;
Pietro Foresti (1854-1926), Palazzo Foresti, Carpi;
Benigno Cristoforo Crespi (1833-1920), Milan, by 1907;
His sale at Galerie George S. Petit in Paris, 4 June 1914, lot 22;
There acquired by James Stillman (1850-1918), New York;
By descent to Charles Chauncey Stillman (1877-1926), New York;
His posthumous sale at the American Art Association in New York, 3 February 1927, lot 30 for
$21,000;
There acquired by his daughter Elizabeth G. Stillman (d. 1956), who married Langbourne Williams
in 1930, New York;
By inheritance to her brother Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907-1989), New York;
By whose Estate sold to benefit the Wethersfield Foundation, at Christie’s in New York, 27 April
2017, lot 26, for $1,450,000.
EXHIBITED
Modena at the Accademia di Belle Arti, 2° Centenario di Ludovico Antonio Muratori, 20-21 October
1872, no. 44;
New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, from 1921-1926;
Ferrara at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, Rinascimento a Ferrara, Ercole de’ Roberti e Lorenzo Costa, 18
February-19 June 2023, no. 105.
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