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Christ and the woman taken in adultery by 
																	Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

( Italian, 1596 - 1669 )

Christ and the woman taken in adultery

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

58.07 in. (147.50 cm.) (height) by 89.80 in. (228.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1979-1986. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1987-2015 (on loan). Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Caravaggio and the Mattei Collection, April 4 - June 29, 1995, no. 17 . Rome, Museo Nazionale, Pietro da Cortona, 1597-1669, October 31, 1997 - February 10, 1998, no. 20. Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, Saints & Sinners: Caravaggio & the Baroque Image, February 1 - May 24, 1999, no. 26

Literature:

Filippo Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte al Pubblico in Roma, Rome, 1758, p. 89 ( "Viene in fine la galleria.., ed i quadri più singolari che vi si osservano sono un Cristo che libera l'Adultera opera bellissima di Pietro da Cortona, ed un presepe del medisimo"). Luigi Lanzi, Storia pittorica d'Italia, (1789), Florence, 1834, vol. II, p. 159 ( "la Storia dell'Adultera, mezze figure di più studio e di più finitezza [to its companion piece, the Nativity], che non costumo ordinariamente"). Giuliano Briganti, Pietro da Cortona, Florence, 1962, p. 175, no. 20, illustrated fig. 47. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel, "Zur Geschichte des Palazzo Mattei di Giove," Romisches Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. XI, 1967-68, pp. 184 and 185 . Ursula Verena Fischer Pace, “Un’aggiunta all’opera giovanile di Pietro da Cortona,” Paragone, 289, 1974, p. 46-47. Giuliano Briganti, Pietro da Cortona, Florence, 1982, pp. 175, 332, no. 20, illustrated fig. 47. David B. Goodstein and Edward C. Goodstein Collection, Menlo Park, 1983, unpaginated, no. 8, illustrated. Jörg Martin Merz, Pietro da Cortona, Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom, Tübingen, 1991, pp. 148-150, illustrated fig. 6. Ursula Verena Fischer Pace, “J.M. Merz, Pietro da Cortona, Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom,” Bollettino d’Arte, VI, LXXVII, 1992, 76, p. 106. Francesco Cappelletti and Laura Testa, Il trattenimento di virtuosi. Le collezioni seicenteschi di quadri nei Palazzi Mattei di Roma, Rome, 1994, pp. 68, 71 note 22, 96, 149, 152, 195, 204, 212, 219, 236, 249. Sergio Benedetti, 'Gli acquisti romani di William Hamilton Nisbet', Paragone, September 1995, pp. 74-75, 81 note 57, and 85, document 6. Anna Lo Bianco, in Rossella Vodret (ed.), Caravaggio e la collezione Mattei, Milan, 1995, pp. 150-155, illustrated p. 153. Anna Lo Bianco, Pietro da Cortona, 1597-1669, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1997, p. 311, no. 20, illustrated. Franco Mormando, Saints & Sinners: Caravaggio & the Baroque Image, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, 1999, pp. 171-172, illustrated plate 26

Provenance:

Marchese Asdrubale Mattei (1554-1638), Duca di Giove, Rome (commissioned directly from the artist in 1624 and completed in 1626, along with its pendant, the Adoration of the Shepherds) . Palazzo Mattei di Giove, Rome, where it hung in the family gallery until 1802 . William Hamilton Nisbet (1747-1822), Dirleton and Belhaven, Haddington (acquired from the above on August 22, 1802 for 1403 scudi and 62 baj). Robert Lebel, Paris, before 1960. Sale: Christie's, London, December 8, 1972, lot 12. David B. Goodstein (on whose behalf acquired by Leggatt at the above sale). Sale: Sotheby's, London, December 10, 1986, lot 11. Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman

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