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Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 December 1976, Lot 16
An apprentice of his father in Munich, Johann Carl Loth came into early contact with 17th century Roman painting before himself moving to Rome some time after 1653. He then worked in Venice where his style became noticeably influenced by Pietro Liberi, Giovanni Battista Langetti and Antonio Zanchi. From an early stage in his career his figures received a painterly look through a tenebrist emphasis on shade.
We are grateful to Giuseppe Fusari for dating the present work to the 1680s, comparing it, for example, to the artist's Martyrdom of San Gherardo Sagredo in the Basilica di Santa Giustina in Padua (1677-1678) and to his Joseph and Potiphar's Wife in the Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (inv. 124) which was executed between 1686-1687. The painting is to be included in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné.