PROCACCINI, CAMILLO
THE NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN
While in the Khomyakov collection and in the Rumyanstev Museum, this painting was thought to be a work by Pellegrino Tibaldi; it was finally attributed to Camillo Procaccini by V.E.Markova. The same composition has been used in a large-format copy in which four musician angels floating in the clouds have been added at the top (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan).
Provenance: to judge from the inscription on the reverse, this work was in Florence in 1883, but in the 17th-centruy it had perhaps belonged to Thomas Blayds; acquired between 1880-98 in Italy by D.A.Khomyakov, who donated it to the Rumyantsev Museum (Moscow) in 1901; in the Pushkin Museum since 1924.
