LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

41.14 in. (104.50 cm.) (height) by 30.98 in. (78.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, Civilità del Seicento a Napoli, 24 October 1984-14 April 1985, no. 2.147 (lent by Rovin Müller). Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Baroque Painters in Italy, 17 November 1989-8 February 1990 (lent by Dr. Croce). Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, Mostly Baroque: Italian Paintings and Drawings from the Carlo Croce Collection, 24 April-14 June 1992

Literature:

J. Pereira, ‘Bartolomé Passante y el “Maestro del Anuncio a los pastores”’, Archivo Español de Arte , XXX, 1957, p. 220, pl. V. G. de Vito, in Painting in Naples, 1606-1705: from Caravaggio to Giordano , exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, p. 194, under no. 84. G. de Vito, in La peinture napolitaine de Caravage à Giordano , exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1983, p. 232, under no. 42. John P. O’Neill (ed.), The Jack and Belle Linsky, Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, p. 46. R. Enggass, ‘Review of the Exhibition in Naples, The Seicento’, The Burlington Magazine , CXXVII, 983, February 1985, p. 121 (incorrectly identifed as no. 2.144). F. Navarro in Battistello Caracciolo e il primo naturalismo a Napoli , exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1991, p. 336, under no. 2.109. G. de Vito, ‘Variazioni sul nome del Maestro dell’Annuncio ai pastori’, in Ricerche sul ‘600 napoletano. Saggi e documenti 1996-1997, Naples, 1998, pp. 30 and 47, fig. 24, as ‘Giovanni Dó’

Provenance:

Mont Collection, New York, 1957. Rovin Müller, London, by 1984. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 December 1985, lot 85 (£11,880). Dr. Carlo Croce, Philadelphia, by 1989; Christie's, New York, 14 January 1993, lot 110 ($165,000). with Mathiessen Fine Art, London, 1993, where acquired by the present owner