The Property of a Gentleman
Workshop of Scipione Pulzone
Portrait of Pope Pius V (1504–1572)
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The Property of a Gentleman
Workshop of Scipione Pulzone
Gaeta 1544–1598 Rome
Portrait of Pope Pius V (1504–1572)
signed and inscribed to the paper: S.D.N / Pio V. / Scipio Gaetano / Facieb
oil on canvas
unframed: 139 x 108 cm.; 54¾ x 42½ in.
framed: 155 x 125 cm.; 61 x 49¼ in.
Purchased by Francis Napier (1819–1898), 10th Lord Napier, by 1848, in Italy;
Thence by inheritance to Colonel Bevil Charles Alan Napier (1919–2000), Abingdon, by 1968;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 16 February 1983, lot 44 (as Scipione Pulzone);
Where acquired by the present owner's mother.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portraits, 1884, no. 16 (as Scipione Pulzone).
J.M. Gray (ed.), Scottish National Portraits, exh. cat., Edinburgh 1884, n. p., no. 16 (as Scipione Pulzone);
A. Dern, Scipione Pulzone, Weimar 2003, pp. 29 and 106, no. 15 (as Scipione Pulzone and workshop);
A. Vannugli, 'Scipione Pulzone rirattista', in Scipione Pulzone. Da Gaeta a Roma alle corti europee, A. Acconci and A. Zuccari (eds), exh. cat., Rome 2013, pp. 31 and 57 n. 48.
Pulzone and his workshop produced multiple versions of this popular composition of Pope Pius V, with variation in the scale and background elements. The prime, full-length version by Pulzone is considered to be the example in Palazzo Colonna, Rome, and does not include the table and the crucifix to the right.1
1 Inv no. 197; oil on canvas, 175 x 112 cm.
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