BARTOLOMEO MANFREDI (OSTIANO, NEAR MANTUA 1582-1622 ROME) - photo 1
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BARTOLOMEO MANFREDI (OSTIANO, NEAR MANTUA 1582-1622 ROME)

Lot 54
09.06.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 000 000
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ID 773407
Lot 54 | BARTOLOMEO MANFREDI (OSTIANO, NEAR MANTUA 1582-1622 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
BARTOLOMEO MANFREDI (OSTIANO, NEAR MANTUA 1582-1622 ROME)
A drinking and musical party
oil on canvas
52 x 77 3⁄8 in. (132 x 196.5 cm.)




Provenance

Armand Hessel (1871-1933), Antwerp; (†) his sale, Antwerp Cercle Royal Artistique, 29 May-2 June 1933, lot 81, as 'Caravaggio.'
G. Garitte, Burgermeester of Berchem, by 1933, and by descent in the family until 1973.
with B. Cohen and Sons, Ltd., London.
with Trafalgar Galleries, London, by 1976.
with Robilant and Voena, London and Milan, by 2007.
Private collection.
with Robilant and Voena, London and Milan by 2017, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

B. Nicolson, 'Bartolomeo Manfredi', Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday, London and New York, 1967, p. 111, note 37.
A. Brejon de Lavergnée and J.P. Cuzin, I caravaggeschi francesci, exhibition catalogue, Rome, 1973, p. 110, fig.7.
B. Nicolson, 'Caravaggio and the Caravaggesque: Some Recent Research', The Burlington Magazine, CXVI, 1974, p. 608, fig. 56.
T. Crombie, 'Masters of light and shade', Apollo, CIII, 1976, pp. 523-524.
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 71, pl. 34 (detail).
J. P. Cuzin, 'Manfredi's Fortune Teller and Some Problems of 'Manfrediana Methodus"', Bulletin of Detroit Institute of Arts, LVIII, 1980, p. 22, note 29.
M. Marini, Caravaggio e il naturalismo internazionale, Rome, 1981, p. 398, fig. 254.
M. Gregori, 'Dal Caravaggio al Manfredi', Dopo Caravaggio: Manfredi e la Manfrediana Methodus, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1987, pp. 24-25.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, I and II, Turin, 1989, p. 144, no. 310, figs. 310 and 311.
M. Pulini, 'Un Manfredi alla luce del sole', Studi di storia dell'arte, 1993, p. 304, fig. 3.
R. Randolfi, 'Bartolomeo Manfredi e la moda del tempo: significati e cronologie', Caravaggio e il caravaggismo, Rome, 1995, pp. 176-179.
G. Merlo, 'Bartolomeo Manfredi', Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio e i suoi primi seguaci, exhibition catalogue, Thessaloniki, 1997, p. 216.
N. Hartje, Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1528-1622: ein Nachfolger Caravaggios und seine europäische Werkung: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Weimar, 2004, pp. 312-315, no. AII, pl. 5.
G. Papi, Manfredi. La Cattura di Cristo, Turin, 2004, p. 32.
J.P. Cuzin, 'Manfredi Fortune Teller and Some Problems of "Manfrediana Methodus''', Figures de la realité: Caravagesques Français, Georges de la Tour, les frères Le Nain..., Paris, 2010, pp. 18-29.
R. Vodret, 'Bartolomeo Manfredi', in Caravaggeschi: Percorsi e protagonisti, A. Zuccari, ed., Milan, 2010, p. 525.
G. Papi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Cremona, 2013, pp. 181-182.



Exhibited

Antwerp, Stadsfeestzaal Antwerpen, Tentoonstelling van Kunstwerken uit Antwerpsche Verzamelingen, 10 August-22 September 1935, no. 291, as 'Michelangelo Caravaggio'.
London, Trafalgar Galleries, In the Light of Caravaggio, 1 June-9 July 1976, unnumbered.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983-1996, on loan.
Cremona, Santa Maria della Pietà, Dopo Caravaggio: Bartolomeo Manfredi e la Manfrediana Methodus, 7 May-5 June 1987, no. 5 (entry by G. Merlo).
Bresica, Museo di Santa Giulia, Da Caravaggio a Ceruti, La scena di genere e l'immagine dei pitocchi nella pittura italiana, 28 November-28 February 1999, no. 9.
Rome, Accademia di Francia-Villa Medici and Paris, Petit Palais, I Bassifondi del Barocco: La Roma del vizio e della miseria, 7 October 2014-25 May 2015, no. 15 (entry by G. Papi).
London, The National Gallery; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, Beyond Caravaggio, 12 October 2016-24 September 2017, no. 12 (entry by L. Treves).
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d'œuvres de la pienture italianne, 13 September-20 January 2020, no. 75 (entry by P. Curie).
Artist:Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582 - 1622)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Baroque, Renaissance, Old Masters
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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