GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI (Bologna 1574-1625 Milan) - photo 1
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GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI (Bologna 1574-1625 Milan)

Lot 41
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1126229
Lot 41 | GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI (Bologna 1574-1625 Milan)
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$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI (Bologna 1574-1625 Milan)

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

inscribed on the reverse (transcribed from the original canvas): G.C. Procaccino / + / M.A.D.

oil on canvas

52 5⁄8 x 38 7⁄8 in. (133.7 x 98.7 cm)





Provenance

Commissioned by Giovan Carlo Doria (1576–1625), Genoa, by 1617-21, and by descent to his son,

Agostino Doria (1615–1640), Genoa, 1625-40, and by inheritance to his paternal uncle,

Marcantonio Doria (1572–1651), Genoa (his initials inscribed on the reverse of the original canvas), 1641, and by descent to his son,

Niccolò Doria (1599–1688), Genoa, 1651, and by inheritance to,

Marcantonio IV Doria (1765–1837), Prince of Angri, Genoa, by 1780, and by descent to his son,

Francesco Doria (1797–1874), and by descent to his son,

Marcantonio V Doria (1824–1870), and by descent to his son,

Ernesto Doria (1863–1933), and by descent to his son (with his first wife Anna Rosa Bues [1872–1906]),

Marcantonio VI Doria (1904–1985).

Private collection, Geneva, until,

[‘The Property of a Gentleman of Title’]; Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1992, lot 89.

with Whitfield Fine Art, London, 1994, from whom acquired in 1995 by the following,

Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson; [Fisch Davidson Collection], Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2022, lot 2, where acquired.



Literature

C.G. Ratti, Instruzione di quanto puo’ vedersi di piu’ bello in Genova in pittura, scultura, ed architettura ecc., Genoa 1780, p. 332.

H. Brigstocke, ‘Book Reviews: L'Attività Scultorea di Giulio Cesare Procaccini. Documenti e testimonianze, by Giacomo Berra: Procaccino. Cerano. Morazzone. Dipinti lombardi del primo Seicento dalle civiche collezioni genovesi ed. by C. Di Fabio’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, no. 1090 (January 1994), pp. 34-35, illustrated fig. 36.

H. Brigstocke, Procaccini in America, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002, pp. 41, 98-101, 130-131, 137, 139, 191, cat. no. 10, illustrated p. 41 plate 76, p. 191, and in colour p. 99.

V. Farina, Giovan Carlo Doria, Promotore delle arti a Genova nel primo Seicento, 2002, pp. 201 and 207.

F.M. Ferro, 'Postille a Giulio Cesare Procaccini', in Arte lombarda del secondo millennio: Saggi in onore di Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua, F. Flores d'Arcais, M. Olivari, L. Tognoli Bardin (eds.), Milan, 2003, p 43.

V. Farina, ‘Gio. Carlo Doria (1576-1625)’, in L'età di Rubens: Dimore, committenti e collezionisti genovesi, exhibition catalogue, P. Boccardo (ed.), Milan, 2004, p. 191, illustrated fig. 2.

F. Frangi, Daniele Crespi: La giovinezza ritrovata, Segrate, 2012, p. 80, footnote 19.

A. Morandotti, in Museo Lechi, primi studi e riscoperte, P. Boifava, F. Frangi, and A Morandotti (eds.), Brescia, 2012, p. 60, under cat. no. 14.

O. D’Albo, ‘Sulla fama del ‘Correggio Insubre’. Un primo squardo alla fortuna di Giulio Cesare Procaccini nelle collezioni europee tra Seicento e Ottocento’, in Lombardia ed Europa: Incroci di storia e cultura, D. Zardin (ed.), Milan, 2014, p. 205;

O. D’Albo, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, per un catalogo dei dipinti, Ph.D. diss., Università Cattolica di Milano, 2016, p. 280, cat. no. 96, illustrated.

H. Brigstocke and O. D’Albo, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Life and Work, Turin, 2020, pp. 41, 354, 372, 437-438, cat. no. 104, illustrated in colour on p. 137.

O. D'Albo, 'Giulio Cesare Procaccini e Genova, in Napoli, Genova e Milano. Scambi artistici e culturali tra città legate alle Spagna (1610-1640)', in Atti del convegno di studi di Torino e Genova, Milan, 2020, pp. 259-260, 265, illustrated fig. 7.

A. Orlando, Giulio Cesare Procaccini. La 'Giuditta Doria' e Genova, (privately printed) 2023.



Exhibited

New York, Hall & Knight, Procaccini in America, 15 October-23 November 2002, no. 10.
Artist:Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574 - 1625)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Place of origin:Italy
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