LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas laid down on panel, circular

Size Notes:

diam

Literature:

P. Ganz, L'OEuvre d'un amateur d'art: La Collection de Monsieur F. Engel-Gros, catalogue raisonné, Paris and Geneva, 1925, I, pp. 118 and 132, no. 10, as Attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio; illustrated II, p. 67. S.W. Pyhrr and E. Fahy, 'A Renaissance Painted Shield Attributed to Girolamo da Treviso', in C. Blair et al., Studies in European arms and armour: The C. Otto von Kienbusch collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1992, pp. 112-113, 128, 131-5 and 148, fig. 92, as Girolamo da Treviso. P.L. de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: L'opera completa, Naples, 2001, pp. 197, 201, 204 and 536, figs. 246 and 248, as Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze. J.-A. Godoy and S. Leydi, Parures triomphales: Le maniérisme dans l'art de l'armure italienne, exhibition catalogue, Geneva and Milan, 2003, p. 496, under no. 94.

Provenance:

Private collection, Brescia, by 1925. Frédéric Engel-Gros (1843-1918), Château de Ripaille, near Geneva; (+), his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May-1 June 1921, lot 225, as Italian School, first half of the 16th century. Madame Paravicini; her sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 6 December 1952, lot 3, as 'Caravage (Attribué à Polidoro da Caravaggio, dit)'.