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DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (SIMIGNANO, NEAR SIENA 1484-1551 SIENA)

Lot 22
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Lot 22 | DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (SIMIGNANO, NEAR SIENA 1484-1551 SIENA)
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£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
DOMENICO BECCAFUMI (SIMIGNANO, NEAR SIENA 1484-1551 SIENA)
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Siena
oil on panel
24 7/8 x 19 ¾ in. (63.2 x 50.2 cm.)




Provenance

Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (1778-1837), London, George Street, Hanover Square, by circa 1810, and at Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and by descent through his son,
George Augustus Frederick Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (1806-1856), at Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and by descent to his son,
Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper and 7th Baron Lucas (1834-1905), and by inheritance through his widow, Katrine Cecilia Compton Cowper, Countess Cowper (1845-1913), to the granddaughter of the 6th Earl,
Ethel, Lady Desborough (1867-1952), and by descent to her daughter,
Monica, the Hon. Lady Salmond (1893-1978), Henfield, Sussex; Christie’s, London, 7 July 1972, lot 51, where acquired for 13,000 gns. by the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie’s, London, 16 December 1998, lot 45.
with Adam Williams, New York, 1999-2003.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 6 December 2006, lot 32, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy, London, 1866, III, p. 468, note 1.
B. Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1st ed. 1897, p. 133; 2nd ed., 1909, p. 145.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, London, 1913, I, p. 40, as 'Fra Bartolommeo'.
H. Trotta-Treyden, Das Leben und die Werke des seneser Malers Domenico Beccafumi genannt Mecarino, Berlin, 1913, pp. 51-52.
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, London, 1914, VI, p. 87, note 1.
J. Judey, Domenico Beccafumi, Berlin, 1932, p. 125.
M. Gibellino-Krasceninnicowa, Il Beccafumi, Florence, 1933, p. 212.
M. Chamot, ‘Panshanger Hertfordshire - II. A Seat of Lord and Lady Desborough’, Country Life, LXXIX, no. 2035, 18 January 1936, p. 64, fig. 1, pictured as hanging in the Picture Gallery at Panshanger.
U. Baldini, in Mostra del Pontormo e del Primo Manierismo Fiorentino, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1956, pp. 145-6, no. 179, pl. CXVIII.
D. Sanminiatelli, ‘The Pontormo Exhibition in Florence’, The Burlington Magazine, XCVIII, July 1956, p. 241, fig. 31.
C. Hussey, ‘Country-House Art Galleries’, Country Life Annual, 1959, p. 42, fig. XX, pictured as hanging in the Picture Gallery at Panshanger.
D. Sanminiatelli, Domenico Beccafumi, Milan, 1967, p. 37 and 81, no. 10, fig. 10.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, New York, 1968, I, p. 35.
M. Ingendaay, Sienesische Altarbilder des Sechzehnten Jahrhunderts: Studien zur Typologie und Thematik mit einem Katalog sienesischer Altarbilder von 1500 bis 1620, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bonn, 1976, II, p. 356, no. 65.
G. Briganti and E. Baccheschi, L'opera completa del Beccafumi, Milan, 1977, p. 87, no. 18, illustrated.
H.G. Belsey, The Life and Collection of George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738-89), unpublished dissertation, Barber Institute of Fine Arts and University of Birmingham, 1981, p. 192, Appendix I B3, p. 222, Appendix II C.
E. Bassan, in L. Bianchi and D. Giunta eds., Iconografia di S. Caterina da Siena. 1: L’Immagine, Rome, 1988, p. 335, no. 279.
A. Angelini, in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1990, p. 136, under no. 15.
R. Bartalini, in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1990, p. 122, under no. 12.
F. Sricchia Santoro, ‘Beccafumi e Siena’, in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1990, p. 31, fig. 8 (detail).
S. Günther, ‘Beccafumi, Domenico’, in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (AKL), Munich and Leipzig, 1994, VIII, p. 100.
P. Torriti, Beccafumi, Milan, 1998, p. 81, no. P18, illustrated.
A. Staderini, in M. Boskovits ed., The Alana Collection. II. Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century, Florence, 2011, pp. 48-52, no. 8, illustrated in colour.
P. Humfrey, ‘The Picture Collection of the Earls Cowper at Panshanger’, Artibus et Historiae, XLIV, no. 88, 2023, p. 266.
P. Humfrey, Regency Collectors. Buying and Displaying Old Masters in Early Nineteenth-Century England, London, 2025, under Appendix 7 (The Cowper Collection at Panshanger c. 1837), p. 205.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Winter Exhibition, 1881, no. 135, as 'Fra Bartolommeo'.
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Mostra del Pontormo e del Primo Manierismo Fiorentino, 24 March-15 July 1956, no. 179.
London, Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd., An Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, 10-26 April 2003, no. 16.
Artist:Domenico di Giacomo Di Pace Beccafumi (1486 - 1551)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Mannerism, Renaissance, Old Masters
Place of origin:Italy, Europe, Tuscany
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