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PIETRO PAOLINI (LUCCA 1603-1681)

Lot 23
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 887485
Lot 23 | PIETRO PAOLINI (LUCCA 1603-1681)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
PIETRO PAOLINI (LUCCA 1603-1681)

Lute players and an angel

signed with the artist's monogram 'PPL' (center, on the lute)

oil on canvas

39 1/2 x 52 1/2 in. (100.3 x 133.4 cm.)





Provenance

Count Eugen Czernin von Chudenitz (1796-1868), Czernin Palais, Vienna, where hanging in the third hall, by 1866 until circa 1958.

with Wildenstein and Co., Paris and New York, by 1960, where acquired in 1970 by,

J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA (acc. no. P70.A32), by whom sold,

[Property of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California]; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1992, lot 19, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, I, Vienna, 1866, p. 303, no. 52, as Valentin de Boulogne.

Katalog der Graf Czernin'schen Gema¨lde-gallerie in Wien, Vienna, 1899, p. 8, no. 53, as Mose Valentin.

H.W. Singer, ed., Allegemeines Künstlerlexikon, IV, Frankfurt, 1921, p. 474, as Valentin de Boulogne.

K. Wilczek, Katalog der Graf Czernin'schen Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna, 1936, p. 90, no. 53, illustrated, as Valentin de Boulogne.

R. Longhi, 'A propos de Valentin', La Revue des Arts, VIII, 1958, p. 63, as Attributed to Adam de Coster.

B. Nicolson, 'Figures at a table at Sarasota', Burlington Magazine, CII, 1960, p. 226, as attributed to the circle of Angelo Caroselli.

A. Ottani, 'Per un Caravaggesco Toscano: Pietro Paolini', Arte Antica e Moderna, XXI, 1963, pp. 23-24, note 11, pl. 5c.

A. Ottani, 'Integrazioni al catalogo del Paolini', Arte Antica e Moderna, 1965, pp. 181-182.

A. Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio, I, Cambridge, 1967, pp. 55-56, 132, 221-222; II, p. 92, fig. 287.

R. Spear, Caravaggio and his followers, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland, 1971, p. 70, under no. 15.

B.B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1972, p. 47, no. 40, fig. 47.

B.B. Fredericksen, The J. Paul Getty Museum, London, 1975, p. 96, illustrated.

B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, London, 1979, p. 77

C. Del Bravo, Verso i Carracci e verso Valentin, Florence, 1979, p. 42.

R. W. Bissel, Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting, University Park and London, 1981, pp. 158-159, under no. 31.

M. Marini, 'Caravaggio e il naturalismo internazionale', in Storia dell' arte italiana: Dal Medioevo al Novecento, Cinquecento e Seicento, II, Turin, 1981, pp. 428-429, fig. 293.

M. Gregori, The Age of Caravaggio/Caravaggio e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1985, pp. 228-229, fig. 1, under no. 69.

P.G. Maccari, Pietro Paolini, pittore lucchese, 1601-1681, Lucca, 1987, pp. 43, 45, 76-78, no. 2.

E. Schleier, 'La pittura a Roma nel Seicento', in La pittura in Italia: Il Seicento, I, Milan, 1988, p. 429, fig. 642.

M. Douglas-Scott, Three Eyes, exhibition catalogue, London, 1990, p. 55, under no. 15.

B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, L. Vertova, ed., I, Turin, 1990, p. 154; II, pl. 372.

G. Williams, 'Pietro Paolini's Portrait of a Man Holding Dürer's Small Passion', Porticus: Journal of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1989-1990, pp. 36-37, 41, n. 11.

R. Lappucci, 'Musica di alcuni giovani', in Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: come nascono i capolavori, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 1991, p. 110.

S. Macioce, Caravaggio, exhibition catalogue, Madrid and Bilbao, 1999, p. 84.



Exhibited

Sarasota, Ringling Museum of Art, Figures at a Table, February 1960, no. 26, as unknown Emilian artist.

Columbus, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Minor Masters: Renaissance - Post-Renaissance, 12 January-22 February 1964, no. 12.

Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The J. Paul Getty Collection, 29 June-3 September 1972, no. 40.

Santa Ana, Bowers Museum, on loan, June-September 1979.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player, 9 February-22 April 1990, no. 13.



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Pietro Paolini (1603 - 1681)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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