LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on copper
Size Notes:
44.1 x 33.6 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
London, British Institution, 1818, no. 40. Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Guido Reni 1575-1642, 5 September 1988-14 May 1989, no. 27 (entry by D.S. Pepper). Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; and The Hague, Mauritshuis, Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper 1575-1775, 19 December 1998-2 August 1999, no. 47 (entry by E.P. Bowron).Paris, Muse Jacquemart-Andr, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d'uvres de la peinture italienne, 13 September-20 January 2020, no. 74 (entry by P. Currie).
Literature:
Dubois de Saint-Gelais, Description des Tableaux du Palais-Royal, Paris, 1727, p. 193. A.J. dArgenville, Abrg de la vie des plus fameux peintres, II, Paris, 1762, p. 110.J. Couch, La Galerie du Palais-Royal grave daprs les tableaux des diffrents coles qui la composent, Paris, 1786, I, pp. 101-102. W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of the Important Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, I, London, 1824, p. 94, no. 2. G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Manuscripots, II, London, 1854, Appendix B, p. 495, no. 9. A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, I, London, 1913, p. 458. C. Stryienski, La Galerie du Rgent Philippe, Duc dOrlans, Paris, 1913, p. 170, no. 253. O. Kurz, 'Guido Reni', Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischensammlungen in Wien, II, Vienna, 1937, p. 247. (Possibly) K. Garas, 'The Ludovisi Collection of Pictures in 1633 II', The Burlington Magazine, CIX, 1967, p. 347, no. 224. E. Bacchesi, Lopera completa di Guido Reni, Milan, 1971, p. 88, no. 26c. D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford, 1984, pp. 217-218, no. 20. D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni. Lopera completa, Novara, 1988, p. 330, no. 16, pl. VI. R. Spear, 'Re-viewing the Divine" Guido'
Provenance:
(Possibly) Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (1595-1632), listed in inventories of 1623 and 1633. Acquired in Rome by the Abb Jean dEstres (1666-1718), Archbishop of Cambrai from 1716, by whom sold to, Philippe II, duc dOrlans (1674-1723), and by descent to his son, Louis, duc dOrlans (1703-1752), and by descent to his grandson, Louis Philippe II Josph dOrlans, duc de Chartres, called Philippe Egalit (1747-1793).'Orlans sale; London, Mr. Bryans Gallery, 26 December 1798, lot 36 (350 gns. to Troward). Walsh Porter; (), Christies, London, 14 April 1810, lot 14 (346 gns. to Parson). George Watson-Taylor, M.P. (1771-1841), Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire, by 1818; Christies, London, 14 June 1823, lot 54 (420 gns. to Count Woronzow). (Probably) Count Semen (or Semyon) Romanovich Worontsow (1744-1832), or Prince Mikhail Semenovitch Vorontsov (1782-1856), Alupka, Crimea.Princess Maria Vassilievna Vorontsova (1819-1894), Alupka, Crimea, and Villa Vorontsova, Florence, by descent to, Nicolas Stolypin (d. 1899); his sale, Giulio Sambon, Florence, 28 April 1900, lot 415.Anonymous sale; Sothebys, London, 10 December 1986, lot 26, where acquired by the following, Richard Feigen, New York, and by whom sold, [Property from the Private Collection of Richard L. Feigen, New York], Sothebys, London, 9 July 2008, lot 72, where acquired by a private collector, by whom sold, [Property from a Distinguished Private Collection]; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2015, lot 22, where acquired after the sale by the present owner.