ID 1126178
Lot 36 | GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (MONTEVARCHI 1600/04-1659 FLORENCE)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
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) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Baroque, Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Giovanni Martinelli (1600 - 1659) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Baroque, Old Masters |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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