ATTRIBUTED TO JUSTUS SUSTERMANS (ANTWERP 1597-1681 FLORENCE)

Lot 70
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Prix de départ
£ 40 000
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ID 1443255
Lot 70 | ATTRIBUTED TO JUSTUS SUSTERMANS (ANTWERP 1597-1681 FLORENCE)
Valeur estimée
£ 40 000 – 60 000
ATTRIBUTED TO JUSTUS SUSTERMANS (ANTWERP 1597-1681 FLORENCE)
Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), seated half-length, holding a telescope
oil on canvas, unframed
31 ¾ x 23 ½ in. (80.6 x 59.6 cm.)
indistinctly inscribed 'La...Florentinus Lynceus novorum / orbium...sip' (lower right, on the arm of the chair)




Provenance

Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski (d. 1833), Florence, as 'Domenico Passignano', and by descent to his sons,
Carlo Poniatowski (1808-1887) and Józef Michał Poniatowski (1814-1873), Villa di Rovezzano.
William Blundell Spence (1814-1900), from whom acquired circa 1854 by,
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), and by descent to,
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (1872-1936); Christie's, London, 7 March 1930, lot 72, as 'School of Sustermans', where unsold, and by descent to,
George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne (1912-1999), Meikleour House; Christie's, London, 7 April 1995, lot 51, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures belonging to The Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G. at Lansdowne House, London and Bowood, Wilts., 1897, no. 47, as 'Florentine School, XVIIth century'.
A. Favaro, Studi e Ricerche per una Iconografia Galileiana, Venice, 1913, p. 1007, as 'Domenico Passignano'.
A. Favaro, Nuovi Materiali per una Iconografia Galileiana, Venice, 1916, p. 57, as 'di tutt'altra maniera da quella del Sustermans per quanto ritragga i lineamenti fondamentali dell'originale dal quale sembra essere stato tratto'.
J.J. Fahie, Memorials of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, Leamington and London, 1929, pp. 24-28, pl. VIII.
B. Nicolson, 'The Sanford Collection', The Burlington Magazine, XCVII, July 1955, p. 214, under no. 51.
J. Fleming, 'Art Dealing in the Risorgimento II', The Burlington Magazine, CXXI, August 1979, p. 499.
L.G. Stoppato, inThe Grand Duke’s Portraitist: Cosimo III de’ Medici and his ‘Chamber of paintings’ by Giusto Suttermans, exhibition catalogue, Livorno, 2006, p. 51, fig. 1, as '17th century painter'.
F. Tognoni, '"È fatto più giorni, similissimo, da mano eccellente": il ritratto-icona di Galileo', Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies, IV, 2007, pp. 147 and 148.
F. Tognoni, ed., Le Opere di Galileo Galilei: Iconografia Galileiana, I, Florence, 2013, pp. 63-65, no. D19, illustrated, as 'Anonymous'.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1854, no. 111 (lent by the Marquess of Lansdowne).
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