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GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (MONTEVARCHI 1600/04-1659 FLORENCE)

Lot 36
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1126178
Lot 36 | GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (MONTEVARCHI 1600/04-1659 FLORENCE)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (MONTEVARCHI 1600⁄04-1659 FLORENCE)

Memento mori: Death comes to the table

oil on canvas, unframed

32 ½ x 40 ½ in. (82.5 x 102.8 cm), including additions, measuring 2 in. along the upper edge, and 1 in. along the left, right, and lower edges





Provenance

with P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, by 1959, as Angelo Caroselli.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1961, lot 100, as Pietro Paolini (220 pounds to Arcade Gallery).

with Arcade Gallery, London.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 1996, lot 42, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

The Illustrated London News, Christmas issue 1959, 235, 6274A, p. 82, as Angelo Caroselli.

B. Nicolson, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', The Burlington Magazine, CI, no. 674, May 1959, p. 199, as 'attributed with excellent reason to Caroselli'.

B. Nicolson, ''Figures at a Table' at Sarasota', The Burlington Magazine, CII, no. 686, May 1960, p. 226, as 'an artist, probably Flemish, of the type of Finson' (in connection with a related picture).

R. Spear, Caravaggio and His Followers, Cleveland, 1971, pp. 88 and 89, fig. 19, as attributed to Jean Ducamps.

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 47, as Jean Ducamps.

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p. 104, and II, fig. 365, as Jean Ducamps/Giovanni Martinelli.

F. Baldassari, La Pittura del Seicento a Firenze. Indice degli Artisti e delle loro Opere, Turin, 2009, p. 525 (though with erroneous ex-Fonteguerri provenance).

(possibly) S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei Pittori Fiorentini del 600 e 700: Biografie e opere, Florence, 2009, p. 194.

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della Pittura Fiorentina del Seicento. Aggiornamento, Pontedera, 2009, p. 141, as 'replica' and with erroneous 1996 sale date.

G. Papi, ‘Giovanni Martinelli, fra Artemisia e Vouet’, in Giovanni Martinelli, da Montevarchi pittore in Firenze, Florence, 2011, pp. 35-36, 47, footnote 9, illustrated fig. 4.



Exhibited

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 14 April-15 May 1959, no. 2, as Angelo Caroselli.
Artist:Giovanni Martinelli (1600 - 1659)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Italy
Auction house category:Paintings
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