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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings & Sculpture Evening Sale | 38 | $****** - ****** | HEAD OF A WOMAN |
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oil on panel
Acquired by King Charles I of England, Whitehall Palace, London, by 1636, (recorded in his 1636/37 inventory);
His estate, Saint James' Palace, London (recorded in the 1649/51 inventory);
Robert Houghton and the Third Dividend, by 1651/52;
With Agnew's, London, by 1930;
Harry Eustace Marsland Benn (1902-1987), Ilkley, by 1951 and until 1981;
With Agnew's, London, by 1988;
From whom acquired by an American private collector in 1989.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, 1 January - 8 March 1930, no. 733;
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra del Caravaggio e dei caravaggeschi, April - June 1951, no. 114;
London, National Gallery; Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Madrid, Museo del Prado, Orazio Gentileschi and the Court of Charles I, 3 March - 20 November 1999, no 10;
Rome, Museo di Palazzo Venezia; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Museum of Art, Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, 15 October 2001 - 15 September 2002, no. 50.
W.G. Constable, "Dipinti di raccolte inglesi alla mostra d'arte italiana a Londra", in Dedalo, 10, 1929-30, pp. 756, 758, 761 (unless otherwise stated here and below as by Orazio Gentileschi);
W.G. Constable (ed.), Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, exhibition catalogue, London 1930, p. 334, cat. no. 733;
D. Lindsay Balniel and K. Clark, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March 1930, London 1931, vol. I, p. 159, cat. no. 465;
The Burlington Magazine, LXXIV, 1939, p. 293;
"An Exhibition of Late Italian Masters", in The Burlington Magazine, LXXX, 1942, p. 19, reproduced p. 19, fig. D;
R. Longhi, "Ultimi studi sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia", in Proporzioni, I, 1943 p. 47, note 38;
R. Longhi, Mostra del Caravaggio e dei caravaggeschi, exhibition catalogue, Florence 1951, p. 66, cat. no. 114;
O. Millar (ed.) "Abraham Van Der Voort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I", in the Walpole Society 37 (1958-60), London 1960, pp. 38 and 231;
W.L.F. Nutthall, "King Charles I's Pictures and the Commonwealth Sale", in Apollo, 82, 1965, pp. 302, 304, 308;
O. Millar (ed.), "The Inventories and Valuations of the King's Goods", in Walpole Society (1970-72), London 1972, p. 266, cat. no. 158;
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, pp. 25 and 53 (as Gentileschi or Paulus Bor);
R. Ward Bissell, Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting, University Park, Pennsylvania 1981, pp. 58, 193-94, cat. no. 68, reproduced fig. 130;
B. Nicolson, in L. Vertova (ed.) Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1990, pp. 66, 116 (as Gentileschi or Paulus Bor);
G. Finaldi (ed.), Orazio Gentileschi and the Court of Charles I, exhibition catalogue, London 1999, pp. 22, 36 note 50, 99;
J. Wood, "Orazio Gentileschi and Some Netherlandish Artists in London: The Patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, Charles I, and Henrietta Maria", in Simiolus, 28, no. 3 (2000-2001), p. 114;
K. Christiansen and J.W. Mann, Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, exhibition catalogue New York 2001, pp. 244-46, cat. no. 50, reproduced in color.
