LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.78 in. (47.70 cm.) (height) by 15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Martinsville, VA, Piedmont Art Association and Roanoke, VA, Roanoke Fine Arts Museum, Late Italian Paintings, 13 April-26 June 1983. Newport News, VA, Peninsula Fine Arts Center and Lexington, VA, Washington and Lee University, Portraits: the inner and outer self: a special loan exhibition from the Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1 May-29 June 1984.

Literature:

T. Borenius and H. Cook, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, 1913, I, p. 48, no. 43, as Salviati. G. Frizzoni, 'Rivelazioni della Galleria Cook a Richmond', Rassegna d'Arte, I, 1914, p. 124, as Salviati. T. Borenius and H. Cook, Abridged Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, London, 1932, p. 45, no. 43, as Salviati. J. Alazard, 1924, p. 197, as being analogous in spirit to works by Salviati, but not certainly by him. I.H. Cheney, Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), unpublished dissertation, New York University, 1963, p. 431, fig. 376, as Salviati, c. 1555-1556. European Art in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: A Catalogue, Richmond, VA., 1966, pp. 16-17, no. 15, as Salviati. A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, New York, 1967, IX, part VI, p. 213, as Salviati. L. Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome, 1992, p. 164, no. 206, illustrated, quoting Alazard as being analogous in spirit to works by Salviati, but not certainly by him. E. Danziger and J. Somerville, 'Concordance of Cook Collection paintings', no. 43, online supplement to E. Danziger, 'The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors', The Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, July 2004, pp. 444-58.

Provenance:

Sir Frederick [Lucas] Cook, 2nd Bt. (1844-1920), in the Octagon Room, no. 58, Doughty House, Richmond, and by descent through Sir Herbert [Frederick] Cook, 3rd Bt. (1868-1939), Doughty House, Richmond, to Sir Francis [Ferdinand Maurice] Cook, 4th Bt. (1907-1978). with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1959, where acquired by The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.