Property from a Private English Collection.

SIGISMONDO COCCAPANI (FLORENCE 1583-1643)
The Holy Family with an angel in the carpenter's shop
Inscribed f.2 2/3 (lower left), f.3 1/3 (lower right), lv B (in ligature) I:o LXXV (lower centre): also inscribed on the verso ...via quel cappanello di legnietto e in quell...farvi ce il cristo abbia cavato di un paniere di ferri il martellol le tenaglie, e di chiodi.
Collector's mark (lower centre, blind stamp, L. 2729)
pen and brown ink and blue wash, over black chalk
26.2 x 21.4 cm

PROVENANCE:
Sigismondo and Giovanni Coccapani, Florence (L. 2729)
By descent to Giovanni Coccapani's son, Regolo Silverio Coccapani
Probably dispersed with the rest of the Coccapani collection in the third quarter of the 17th century
Jean-Luc Baroni, London, 2002