Index

7 Preface Letizia Treves

9 Birth and growth of a collection of paintings: stumbling blocks and obstacles in my path Vittorio Ducrot

27 An idea of collecting Claudio Strinati

31 Survey of the Ducrot Collection Luciano Arcangeli

The Ducrot Collection Texts by Letizia Treves

36 1. Giovanni Battista Beinaschi, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with an angel holding a martyr's palm 40 2. Pietro Berrettini, The Holy Family in a moonlit landscape 44 3. Giacinto Brandi, Saint Francis weeping 48 4. Guido Cagnacci, The Madonna reading 52 5. Simone Cantarini, Study of the head of a young woman 56 6. Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Saint Andrew 60 7. Attributed to , Christ carrying the Cross 64 8. Giuseppe Cesari, The Rape of Deianeira 68 9. Carlo Dolci, The Flight into Egypt 72 10. Carlo Dolci, Saint Matthew and the angel 76 11. Carlo Dolci, Saint Peter weeping 80 12. Carlo Dolci, Saint James the Less 84 13. Carlo Dolci, Ecce Homo

5 88 14. Carlo Dolci, The Penitent Magdalene 92 15. Carlo Dolci, Saint Agatha 96 16. Carlo Dolci, Christ carrying the Cross 100 17. Studio of Carlo Dolci, God the Father 102 18. French Follower of , The Assumption of the Virgin 104 19. French School, circa 1650-75, The Rape of the Sabine Women 106 20. , Christ as Salvator Mundi

112 21. , Cleopatra 118 22. Corrado Giaquinto, La Virgen de la Soledad 122 23. , The Finding of Moses

126 24. Luca Giordano, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth 130 25. Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri, The Rape of Europa 136 26. Johann Heiss, Joseph and Potiphar's wife 138 27. Giovanni Lanfranco, Christ carrying the Cross 142 28. Studio of Nicolas de Largilliere, Portrait of a Cistercian monk, half length, holding a book 146 29. Lombard School, beginning of the 17th Century, Figures bringing food and drink to seven monks, the Virgin Mary blessing from above 148 30. Carlo Maratta, Saint Anthony of Padua adoring the Christ Child with an Angel 154 31. Claude Mellan, Saint Bruno in prayer 160 32. Charles Mellin, Saint Stephen 164 33. Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Saint Carlo Borromeo in Glory 170 34. Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, A bacchanalian scene with Ceres, the drunken Silenus and putti (An Allegory of the Four Seasons) 174 35. , The Dream of Saint Joseph 180 36. Follower of , Lamentation over the Dead Christ 184 37. Francesco Solimena, Saint Anthony of Padua, Louis of Toulouse and Bonaventura adoring the Christ Child 188 38-39. Francesco Solimena, Two Allegorical Virtues: Humility and Faith 192 40. , Lucretia 198 41. Massimo Stanzione, Study of a woman, probably Saint Agatha, head and shoulders 202 42. Andrea Vaccaro, The Penitent Magdalene 204 43. Giuseppe Vermiglio, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife 208 44. Domenico Maria Viani, The Finding of Moses

213 Paintings formerly in the Ducrot Collection, either sold or exchanged Vittorio Ducrot

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