ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (PISA 1563-1639 LONDON) - photo 1
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ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (PISA 1563-1639 LONDON)

Lot 32
09.06.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 4 440 000
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ID 773378
Lot 32 | ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (PISA 1563-1639 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (PISA 1563-1639 LONDON)
The Madonna and Child
oil on panel
36 x 28 1⁄4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm.)




Provenance

(Possibly) Marchese Clemente Sannesi and his brother Cardinal Giacomo Sannesi (1551-1621) and by inheritance to Anna Maria Sannesi, the final heir of the Cardinal whose posthumous inventory of 1724 lists a Madonna and Child by Gentileschi, measuring 5 by 3 palmi (about 111 x 67 cm.) on panel.
Principe Leone Massimo, Rome, 1977.
with Galerie Giorgio Balboni, Paris.
with Matthiesen Fine Art, London, 1978-81, where acquired by,
The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, and by which sold,
[The Property of Mrs. Barbara Piasecka Johnson, the Proceeds of Sale to Benefit in Part the Institute for Child Development in Gdansk]; Christie's, London, 6 December 2007, lot 71, where acquired by the present owner.




Literature

R. Ward Bissell, Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting, University Park, PA, 1981, pp. 143-144, 147, no. 12, fig. 23.
M. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, Princeton, 1989, pp. 25-26, 32 and 493, notes 21 and 22, as 'Artemisia Gentileschi'.
R. Ward Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art, Pennsylvania, 1999, pp. 326-327, no. X-18, fig. 218.
A. Sutherland Harris, 'Artemisia and Orazio: Drawing Conclusions', Artemisia Gentileschi: Taking Stock, Turnhout, 2005, pp. 138-139, fig. 7, as 'Artemisia Gentileschi'.
S. Chiodo and S. Padovani, eds., The Alana Collection: Italian Paintings from the 14th to the 16th century, III, Florence, 2014, pp. 204-207, no. 28, illustrated (entry by G. Papi).




Exhibited

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Important Italian Baroque Paintings, 1600-1700, 1981, no. 1.
Warsaw, Royal Castle; Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Opus Sacrum: Catalogue of the Exhibition from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, 10 April 1990-30 September 1991, no. 30
Rome, Museo del Palazzo di Venezia; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Saint Louis, Saint Louis Museum, Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy, 15 October 2001-15 September 2002, no. 8.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Collection Alana: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture italienne, 13 September 2019-20 January 2020, no. 73 (entry by P. Currie).
Artist:Orazio Gentileschi (1563 - 1639)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Baroque, Renaissance, Old Masters
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Italy, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings
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