Home > Auction >  paintings, furniture and works of art, jewellery, sculptures, bronzes >  Lot.579 Zuccarelli, Francesco (district). Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788. 23.5 x 26.5 cm. Erminia with the shepherds. Oil/Lwd./Lwd. "After the episode in Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme Liberata (7th song, verses 6 and 7)" (...) Now she stands up and approaches the sound, and from the shadow an old man looks out, his baskets full of his army, surrounded by three children raising the song./Now when they see the foreign weapons, they are frightened and fear danger, but they awaken them with a gentle greeting, trusting the eye and revealing the golden hair (...). Provenance: Collection Professor Joseph Matzker; Auction Sotheby's London 7 Dec. 1988: A Collection of Paintings and Drawings by Carlo Carlone and his Contemporaries formed by Professor and Mrs. Joseph Matzker, lot 53; important South German private collection.