GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704) - photo 1
GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704) - photo 2
GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704) - photo 3

GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704)

Lot 71
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 71 | GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
GIOVANNI COLI (LUCCA 1643-1681) AND FILIPPO GHERARDI (LUCCA 1643-1704)
Death of Dido
oil on canvas
52 x 78 7/8 in. (132 x 200.3 cm.)




Provenance

with F. Mont, New York (according to Zeri Research Files).
Bertram Newhouse and Elizabeth Holmes Fisher (1867-1955), by whom gifted in 1942 to,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Christie's, New York, 10 January 1990, lot 137, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

'Preservation of Paintings', Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly, II, September 1942, pp. 10, 12-13 and 22, nos. 3 and 4, figs. 1-3.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, I, Los Angeles, 1954, p. 48, no. 46, fig. 46.
A. Pigler, Barockthemen, II, Budapest, 1956, p. 299.
C. Donzelli and G.M. Pilo, I Pittori del Seicento Veneto, Florence, 1967, p. 137, pl. 143.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard, 1972, pp. 55 and 590.
A. Pigler, Barockthemen, III, Budapest, 1974, fig. 276.
U. Mertz, Der Bilderzyklus in der Bibliothek des Klosters San Giorgio Maggiore in Venedig, Venice, 1975, pp. 137-140, no. 4, fig. 25.
R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del Seicento, Milan, 1981, I, p. 294; II, p. 881, fig. 989.
R. Enggass, 'Coli, Giovanni', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, XXVI, Rome, 1982, p. 746.
J. Rabinovitz and K. Jacobson, eds., European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1987, p. 31, illustrated.
M. Kunze, 'Coli, Giovanni', in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, XX, Munich-Leipzig, 1998, p. 247.
A. Serafini, 'Gherardi, Filippo', in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, LIII, Rome, 1999, p. 553.
M. Kunze, 'Gherardi, Filippo', in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, LII, Munich-Leipzig, 2006, p. 507.
D. Ton, 'Giovanni Coli: Filippo Gherardi', Saggi e Memorie di storia dell'arte, XXXI, 2007, pp. 4, 9-11, 62-64, 68-69, 77, 88, 91, 133, 160, no. 11, figs. 4 and 31.



Exhibited

Venice, Ca' Pesaro, La Pittura del Seicento a Venezia, 27 June-25 October 1959, no. 159.
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