LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.88 in. (101.30 cm.) (height) by 47.01 in. (119.40 cm.) (width)

Literature:

L. Venturi,. La Negazione di San Pietro di Michelangelo da Caravaggio , Rome 1948, pp. IX, XV-XVII, XXVIII, XXXIV, XXXXI, reproduced plate 1 (as Michelangelo da Caravaggio);. B. Nicholson,. The International Caravaggesque Movement , Oxford 1979, p. 78 (as possibly a copy after Pensionante del Saraceni);. M. Wynne,. Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland , Dublin 1985, p. 14, under cat. no. 5 (as a version);. B. Nicholson,. Caravaggism in Europe , Turin 1990, vol I, p. 155 (as possibly a copy);. M.G. Aurigemma, "Il Pensionante del Saraceni," in. I Caravaggeschi: Percorsi e protagonisti , Milan 2010, vol II, p. 560, under footnote 8 (listing it twice, as ex- Rivera Schreiber and also as ex-Christie's London 1991 [see provenance]

Provenance:

Ricardo Rivera Schreiber, Lima, Peru, by 1948, thence by descent;. Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, 1 November 1991, lot 52 (as After the Pensionante del Saraceni);. Where acquired by the current collector