AFTER LUDOVICO CARDI (IL CIGOLI). ECCE HOMO, oil on canvas - Unframed, 67 1/4 in. x 50 in. Estimate $4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE: Consul Antonio Ferreira Viana de Queiroz Matos, acquired in Italy and brought to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1889. Antonio Ferreira Viana de Queiroz, by descent. Justice Dr. Jose Pires Brandao, by purchase. Marilia Bernardes Coleman, by purchase, 1961.
NOTE: In 1607 Cigoli painted the Ecce Homo, now in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, for the Roman nobleman Massimo Massimi, who had commissioned three artists - Cigoli, Passignano and Carvaggio - to paint a depiction of the suffering Christ being presented to the people by Pontius Pilate. Massimi preferred Cigoli's to the two others, and retained it for his collection.
