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Portrait of a seated lady, three-quarter length, in an elaborate and gold-embroidered costume, possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano by Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi

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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (27 Jan 2022)
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Jan 27, 2022
Sotheby'sNew YorkMaster Paintings & Sculpture Part I31
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Portrait of a seated lady, three-quarter length, in an elaborate and gold-embroidered costume, possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

130.2 x 98.1 cm (51.25 x 38.63 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Provenance

Sir Foster Cunliffe, Bt., Acton Hall, Wrexham, no. 25;

His deceased sale ("Sold by Order of the Trustees"), London, Sotheby's, 1 February 1950, lot 135, for £40 to Wollheim (as Sustermans);

Richard Wollheim, Esq., London;

Mrs. James Hasson;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 20 February 1981, lot 92 (as J. Sustermans);

With Trafalgar Galleries, London, 1983;

Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation, Princeton, from 1987;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Private Collector"), London, Sotheby's, 8 July 1999, lot 73;

There acquired.

Exhibited

London, Trafalgar Galleries, Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy III , October 1983, no. 27;

New York, Richard L. Feigen & Company, Inc., Artemisia, 15 June - 23 April 1998;

Paris, Musée Maillol, Artemisia Gentileschi. Pouvoir, gloire et passions d'une femme peintre, 14 March - 15 July 2012, no. 15.

Literature

Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy Ill , exhibition catalogue, London 1983, pp. 70-73, cat. no. 27, reproduced in color;

M.D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi , New Jersey 1989, p. 378, under Appendix A, no. 4;

G. Papi, in Artemisia , exhibition catalogue, Florence 1991, p. 157, under cat. no. 21, reproduced fig. 89 (know from photographs, as "Artemisia Gentileschi(?)");

A. Guite, in Artemisia , exhibition catalogue, New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Inc., 1998;

R.W. Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art , Pennsylvania State University, 1999, p. 237, cat. no. 26, reproduced fig. 120 (the author who gives an extensive bibliography dates it to 1630);

F. Solinas, “Ritorno a Roma, 1620-1627,” in Artemisia Gentileschi. Storia di una passione , exhibition catalogue, Milan 2011, pp. 83, 86-87, reproduced fig. 2 (as ''Portrait of Princess Caterina Savelli”, and dated to the spring of 1620);

Artemisia Gentileschi. Pouvoir, gloire et passions d'une femme peintre, ” exhibition catalogue, Paris 2012, pp. 88, 96-97, reproduced in color;

A. Grassi, Artemisia Gentileschi , Pisa-Ospedaletto 2017, pp. 172-175, reproduced.

Description

Property from the Collection of J.E. Safra

Artemisia Gentileschi

Rome 1593 - after 1654 Naples

Portrait of a seated lady, three-quarter length, in an elaborate and gold-embroidered costume, possibly Caterina Savelli, Principessa di Albano

oil on canvas

canvas: 51 1/4 by 38 5/8 in.; 130.2 by 98.1 cm.

framed: 58 3/4 by 46 in.; 149 by 116.8 cm.