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The Madonna and Child by Orazio Gentileschi

Orazio Gentileschi

The Madonna and Child

Oil on panel
91.4 x 71.8 cm (36 x 28.25 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (09 Jun 2022)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 9, 2022
Christie'sNew YorkOld Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks from The Alana Collection32
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The Madonna and Child
Dec 6, 2007
Christie'sLondonImportant Old Master & British Pictures Including works from the Collection of Anton Philips71
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The Madonna and Child
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

91.4 x 71.8 cm (36 x 28.25 in)

Materials

oil on panel

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.

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).

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).

Description

ORAZIO GENTILESCHI (PISA 1563-1639 LONDON)

The Madonna and Child

oil on panel

36 x 28 1⁄4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm.)