MATTIA PRETI (CALABRIA 1613-1699 VALLETTA)

Lot 27
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1441856
Lot 27 | MATTIA PRETI (CALABRIA 1613-1699 VALLETTA)
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 800 000
MATTIA PRETI (CALABRIA 1613-1699 VALLETTA)
Samuel anointing David
oil on canvas
85 5/8 x 123 in. (217.5 x 312.5 cm.)




Provenance

Church of las Carmelitas Descalzos, Madrid, by 1772, until sold in 1786.
Private collection, by 1987.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 101.
Anonymous sale [From a Private Collection, Miami]; Christie's, London, 6 July 1990, lot 64, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

A. de Colmenares y Orgaz, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, Madrid, 1933, p. 44.
A. Ponz, Viaje de España: Seguido de los dos tomos del Viaje Fuera de España, 1772, Madrid, 1947, p. 483.
A. Perez Sanchez, Pintura italiana del siglo XVII en España, Madrid, 1965, p. 422.
A. Pelaggi, Mattia Preti ed il Seicento italiano col catalogo delle opere, Catanzaro, 1972, p. 71.
J. Colton, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Paintings in North America 1650-1750, New Haven, 1987, pp. 102-4, no. 4, illustrated.
M. Utili, Mattia Preti tra Roma, Napoli e Malta, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1999, p. 53, illustrated.
J.T. Spike, Mattia Preti: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Florence, 1999, p. 371, no. 312.
K. Sciberras, Mattia Preti: Life and Works, Valletta, 2020, p. 306, no. 447.



Exhibited

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery; Sarasota, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, A Taste for Angels: Neapolitan Painting in North America, 29 September 1987 - 13 March 1988, no. 4.
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