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  Artemisia Gentileschi Rome 1593 - after 1654 Naples Susanna and the Elders oil on canvas 104 3/8 by 82 5/8 in.; 265 by 210 cm Provenance Probably Luigi Romeo, Barone di San Luigi, Naples, before 1642 (with its pendant depicting David and Bathsheba); Private collection, France, by 1990s; By whom anonymously sold ("Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 1995, lot 53 (as Artemisia Gentileschi); There acquired. Literature B. De Dominici, Vite de'pittori, scultori, ed architetti napoletani, vol. III, Rome 1742, pp. 198-9; E. Brunetti, Situazione di Viviano Codazzi, Florence 1956 pp. 59-60, note 28; Colnaghi, exhibition catalogue, London 1963, under cat. no. 25, reproduced plate 14; "Notable Works of Art now on the Market", in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CV (June 1963), supplement III, opposite p. 292 (as the unlocated pendant to the Columbus David and Bathsheba); G.L. Briganti, L. Trezzani, and L. Laureati, "Viviano Codazzi", in Pittor...

  Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli Florence 1444/5 - 1510 The Man of Sorrows inscribed along the neckline of Christ's robe: [ CHR ] ISTO /  JESVNAZAR /  ENOR [...]  tempera and oil on panel panel: 27 1/8 by 20 1/4 in.; 69 by 51.4 cm. framed: 45 3/4 by 39 1/4 in.; 116.2 by 100 cm. Provenance Adelaide Kemble, later Mrs. Edward John Sartoris (1815–1879), Rome and Warnford Park, Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire; Thence by descent to her great-granddaughter, The Hon. Pamela Margaret Stanley, later Lady Cunynghame of Milncraig (1909–1991), London; By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1963, lot 9, for £10,000 (as Alessandro Filipepi, called Botticelli); There acquired by Butler as agent for the present owner. Literature R. Lightbown,  Sandro Botticelli , London 1978, vol. II, under cat. no. C49, p. 142 (listed under "Workshop and school pictures"); B. Eclercy, in  Botticelli: Likeness, Myth, Devotion , ...