LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

41.34 in. (105.00 cm.) (height) by 31.69 in. (80.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Poughkeepsie (New York), Vassar College, Taylor Hall, Exhibition of old masters of the XVII and XVIII centuries, 6 April - 1 May 1938 (as Gentileschi);. Oberlin (Ohio), Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Cornerstones for a college art collection, 22 May - 15 June 1939, no. 38 (as Gentileschi);. Portland (Oregon), Portland Art Museum, Old master paintings, July - September, 1940 (as by Gentileschi);. San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th centuries, 16 May - 15 June 1941, no. 41 (as Gentileschi);. New York, Schaeffer Galleries, Gems of Baroque Painting, 27 January - 28 February 1942 (as Gentileschi); . Pittsfield (Mass.), Berkshire Museum, Music in Art, 11 August - 6 September 1942 (as Gentileschi). .

Literature:

R. Ward Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art, Pennsylvania State University Press 1999, p. 405, note 46 (as Grammatica).

Provenance:

Baron Grundherr, Vienna (as Artemisia Gentileschi); . With Schaeffer Galleries, New York, by 6 November 1941 (as Gentileschi);. With Hammer Galleries, New York (as Gentileschi);. With Gimbel Brothers, New York (as Gentileschi);. Private Collection, Washington, D.C., circa 1950;. Anonymous sale, Philadelphia, Freeman's, 29 January 2015, lot 99 (as attributed to Antiveduto Grammatica).