Lot 210
  • 210

Carlo Amalfi Vico Equense or Sorrento c. 1730

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Description

  • Carlo Amalfi
  • Portrait of an Architect
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

With Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Ayers in 1940 for the Art Institute of Zanesville, now the Zanesville Art Center.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Baroque Painting, 1941, no. 103, reproduced p. 49 (as Solimena).

Literature

Art Institute Fifth Anniversary of the Opening Catalogue, Zanesville, Ohio 1940, under "Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection", no. 4 (as Solimena);
Art News, October 12, 1940, reproduced on the cover;
T.C. Howe, Jr., Italian Baroque Painting, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco 1941, no. 103 (as Solimena), reproduced p. 49;
Art Institute Zanesville, Ohio, Catalogue 1942, Zanesville 1942, pp. 8-9, cat. no. 4 (as Solimena), reproduced.

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for suggesting an attribution for the present portrait to Carlo Amalfi.