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Lot 38 · Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception

Pietro Faccini · pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on light brown prepared paper

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Estimate
£15,000–£25,000 hammer ≈ $19,216–$32,027
Result
Performance
Sale
Christie's — Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School, London · 4 December 2018
Dimensions
22½ x 15½ in. (57.2 x 39.4 cm)
Record ID
TB-2026-3768887
Record
first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Pietro Faccini, Allegory of the Immaculate Conception. Christie's, 4 Dec 2018, lot 38. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3768887.

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From the same sale Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art Sold to Benefit Rugby School · Dec 2018

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The Marriage Feast at Cana Gregorio Pagani £10,000–£15,000
Three bishop Saints Giuseppe Cades £15,000–£25,000
Studies of reclining male nudes Giuseppe Cades £3,000–£5,000
Pan and Syrinx in a wooded lake landscape Jan Wildens £6,000–£8,000
The Virgin and Child seated on a plinth supported by angels, Saint Mi… Giuseppe Cades £10,000–£15,000
18Th-19Th Century A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ VASE £4,000–£6,000

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Pietro Faccini Homme nu assis $38,255 Sotheby's, Mar 2009
Pietro Faccini [no title recorded] Dorotheum, Oct 2017
Pietro Faccini A seated male nude, looking up to the left Christie's, Jul 2014
Hubert Robert Paris Washerwomen in a landscape, with a group of shepherds before Sotheby's, May 2021
Pietro Faccini recto: madonna and child and st. john the baptistverso: stud Sotheby's, Jul 2007
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo giovanni battista tiepolo | a man in a turban, seen from beh Sotheby's, Jul 2020
Pietro Faccini A seated male youth, his torso bare Christie's, Jan 2010
Pietro Faccini Study of a reclining Youth, leaning to the Right Christie's, Jul 2026

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