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FEDERICO BAROCCI (1535–1612)

Man Reading

Year c. 1605 - 7
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 65.5 x 49.5 cm 25 3/4 x 19 1/2 in
Signed and dated Label printed in red ink (on the reverse): 'Emo / Gio Battist[a]'

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Provenance

Collection of Cardinal Antonio Barberini (Inventory 1671: "130 – Un quadro di p.mi 3 1⁄2 inc.a di Altezza, e p.mi 3 di largha’ Con Mezza figura con il Braccio incupido [incompiuto] appogiato al capo, e nell’altra Un libro, opera di Lodovico [sic] Barocci Con Cornice indorata n° 1-130");

With Galerie Tarantino, Paris, until 2018.

Literature

A. Emiliani, ‘Federico Barocci. Étude d’homme lisant’, in Rome de Barocci à Fragonard, exh. cat., Paris 2013, pp. 18–21, reproduced;

A. Emiliani, La Finestra di Federico Barocci. Per una visione cristologica del paesaggio urbano, Bologne, Faenza 2016, p. 118, reproduced.

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Man Reading by FEDERICO BAROCCI — detail
Man Reading by FEDERICO BAROCCI — detail
Man Reading by FEDERICO BAROCCI — detail
Man Reading by FEDERICO BAROCCI — detail
Man Reading by FEDERICO BAROCCI — detail