BENVENUTO TISI, CALLED GAROFALO (FERRARA 1481-1559)

Lot 114
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Lot 114 | BENVENUTO TISI, CALLED GAROFALO (FERRARA 1481-1559)
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
BENVENUTO TISI, CALLED GAROFALO (FERRARA 1481-1559)
The Holy Family
oil on panel
19 ¼ x 14 3/8 in. (48.9 x 36.7 cm.)




Provenance

Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912), St Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, London, by 1907, by whom bequeathed with the rest of his collection to,
The University of Cambridge, but not retained.
The Marlay Bequest to The Fitzwilliam Museum and by which sold,
[The Property of a Gentleman, deceased]; Christie's, London, 1 February 1924, lot 17, as 'Dosso', where acquired for 75 gns. by,
with Horace Buttery (1902-1962), London.
Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, by 1934, and by inheritance to his wife,
Anna Willi-Lanz (1870-1954), by whom deposited in 1935 with her entire collection at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Acquired with the rest of the Lanz collection on 28 March 1941 via her son G.B. Lanz by Hans Posse on behalf of Adolf Hitler for the Führer-Museum at Linz for RM 2,000.
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Art & Archives Section from the salt mines at Alt-Aussee (no .2769) and transferred to the Munich Central Collection Point on 13 July 1945 (MCCP no. 4032), as 'Ortolano’;
Repatriated to The Netherlands from the above, 15 February 1946.
Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, Amsterdam,
[Provenant de l'ancienne collection du Professeur Otto Lanz, à Amsterdam]; Frederik Muller, 13-15 March 1951, lot 192, as 'Ortolano', where acquired for f 1,650 by the following,
with Kunsthandel Staal, Amsterdam, where acquired by,
Dr. Hans A. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, by descent until,
[Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2018, lot 42, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

B. Berenson, North Italian painters of the Renaissance, New York, 1907, p. 226.
O. Sirén, 'Early Italian pictures at Cambridge', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XXXVII, 1920, p. 298, 303, no. 213, pl. IV-K, as 'Chiodarolo'.
R. Van Marle, 'La pittura all'Esposizione d'arte antica italiana di Amsterdam', Bolletino d'arte, XXVIII, 1935, p. 452, as 'Ortolano'.
G. Bargellesi, Notizie di opere d'arte Ferrarese, Rovigo, 1955, pp. 83-86, fig. 25.
A. Neppi, Il Garofalo, Milan, 1959, pp. 13-14.
G. Mazzariol, Il Garofalo, Venice, 1960, p. 15, note 15.
G. Frabetti, L'Ortolano, Milan, 1966, pp. 19, 52, 67, under no. 29, fig. 24b.
E. Sambo, 'Sull'attivita giovanile di Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo', Paragone, XXIV, no. 395, 1983, p. 27, notes 24 and 25, incorrectly assuming the Marlay and Lanz pictures to be separate works.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, I, Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, p. 153.
P.D. Matthiesen, ed., From Borso to Cesare d'Este: The School of Ferrara, 1450-1628, exhibition catalogue, London, 1984, p. 78, under no. 23.
A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo, Rimini, 1993, pp. 94-96, no. 19, illustrated.



Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche kunst uit Nederlandsch bezit, 1 January-1 October 1934, no. 264, as 'Ortolano'.
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