LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

38.66 in. (98.20 cm.) (height) by 52.99 in. (134.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, inscribed and dated 'IO: BENEDITTUS CASTILIONUS IANVENSIS 1633' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Princeton, Princeton University Art Gallery, Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Collections, 17 April-7 September, 1980, Princeton, 1980, no. 12 (catalogue by John T. Spike). New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, Landscape Painting in Rome: 1590 - 1675, 30 January-23 March, 1985, no. 17, (catalogue by Ann Sutherland Harris). Genoa, Accademia Liguistica di Belle Arti, Il Genio di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto, 27 January-1 April 1990, no. 1 (catalogue entry by Timothy Standring).

Literature:

J. A. Britton, A Catalogue Raisonée of the Pictures Belonging to the Most Honorable of the Marquis of Stafford, London, 1808, no. 80. W. Y. Ottley, Engravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in London, London, 1818, no. 66. J. Young, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the Most Noble the Marquess of Stafford at Cleveland House, I, no. 106, pl. XL. M. Newcome, 'A Castiglione-Leone Problem', Master Drawings, l6, no. 2, 1978, pp. 81-87. H. Brigstocke, 'Castiglione: Two Recently Discovered Paintings and Some New Thoughts on His Development', The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, no. 926, l980, pp. 293-98. M. Newcome, 'Drawings by Castiglione', Paragone, no. 377, July, 1981, pp. 31-7. T. J. Standring, 'Genium Io: Benedicti Castilionis Ianuen: The Paintings of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1663/65)', Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1982, II, no. 13, fig. 15. T. J. Standring, 'A Signed Penitence of St. Peter by G.B. Castiglione (1609-1663/65),' The Burlington Magazine, CXXVII, March, 1985, p. 160. T. J. Standring, 'Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione called il Grechetto,' in La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria, Genoa, 1987, II, p. 153, fig. 125. J.-C. Boyer and I. Volf, 'Rome a Paris en 1638: les tableaux du Marechal de Crequy', Revue de L'Art, 79, 1988, p. 27. M. Heimbrger, 'Il Grechetto Giovani: Nouve Proposte', Studi di Storia dell'arte in onore di Mina Gregori, Milan, 1994, pp. 203-07. M. Newcome, 'Castiglione in the 1630s', Nuovi Studi: Rivista di Arte Antica e Moderna, I, 1996, pp. 59-66, no. 81. P. Cavazzini, 'Oltre la committenza: commerci d'arte a Roma nel primo seicento,' Paragone, no. 705, November, 2008, pp. 72-92. Patrizia Cavazzini, Painting as Business in Early Seventeenth-Century Rome, Pennsylvania, 2008, pp. 70, 184, no. 168.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Cardinal Decio Azzolini, Rome, 1689. The honorable T.H. Brand (later, Lord Dacre),. Marquis of Stafford, Cleveland House, by 1818, and by descent. Duke of Sutherland K.G., Stafford House, St. James's; (+) Christie's, London, 11 July 1913, lot 49 (12 gns. to Saunders). Acquired by the present owner in Switzerland, c. 1971-72.