Lorenzo Sabatini Da Bologna

LORENZO SABATINI (Bologna 1520-1576 Rome) Study for a Spandrel Decoration with a Satyr and Satyress. Pencil and chalk with white heightening on greenish gray laid paper. 295x415 mm; 11 5/8x16 3/8 inches. Ex-collection Mathias Polakovits (Lugt 3561, lower left recto); and unknown collector, initials le in ink, lower left recto. Estimate $4,000-6,000

- LORENZO SABATINI BOLOGNA CIRCA 1530 - 1576 ROME MADONNA AND CHILD WITH THE INFANT SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 12,000—18,000 GBP 124.7 by 98.3 cm.; 49 by 38 3/4 in. oil on canvas Another version of this composition by Sabatini, withdifferences to the pose of the Christ Child and to the background,is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (see J. Winkelmann, in Pitturabolognese del '500, vol. II, Bologna 1986, p. 608, reproduced p.630).

MADONNA AND CHILD WITH THE INFANT SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST 20,000—30,000 GBP 124.7 by 98.3 cm.; 49 by 38 3/4 in. oil on canvas CATALOGUE NOTE Another version of this composition by Sabatini, withdifferences to the pose of the Christ Child and to the background,is in the Louvre, Paris (see J. Winkelmann, in Pittura bolognesedel '500, vol. II, Bologna 1986, p. 608, reproduced p. 630).

catalogue note we are grateful to prof.ssa vera fortunati for proposing an attribution of the present copper to lorenzo sabatini, on the basis of a color transparency. prof.ssa fortunati believes the painting to be an early work by the artist, when he was still greatly influenced by pellegrino tibaldi, and dates it to circa 1550. the composition is known in another version, also on copper and of similar dimensions, sold in new york, sotheby's, may 27, 2004, lot 6 (as by bartolomeo passerotti; an attribution proposed by dott.ssa angela ghirardi on the basis of photographs). oil on copper, unframed

catalogue note we are grateful to prof.ssa vera fortunati for proposing an attribution of the present copper to lorenzo sabatini, on the basis of a color transparency. prof.ssa fortunati believes the painting to be an early work by the artist, when he was still greatly influenced by pellegrino tibaldi, and dates it to circa 1550. the composition is known in another version, also on copper and of similar dimensions, sold in new york, sotheby's, may 27, 2004, lot 6 (as by bartolomeo passerotti; an attribution proposed by dott.ssa angela ghirardi on the basis of photographs). oil on copper, unframed description