Lot 251
  • 251

Giuseppe Vermiglio

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Giuseppe Vermiglio
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds
  • oil on panel

Condition

Panel is uncradled, flat and stable. under a dirty varnish. there is generally good retention of the paint surface with nice preservation of impasto. some small cracks and losses with old fills can be seen along upper edge. other small cracks can be seen at center right which run through hand and arm of Virgin, and figure of shepherd to her right. a few others can be seen on back of kneeling shepherd in right foreground and along bottom edge. under UV: it is difficult to see through the old varnish. retouches as mentioned at top and some also along lower edge. a few tiny retouches here and there on top of the old varnish. this painting would benefit from a light cleaning and sensitive restoration as it has not been attended to in a long time. In an elaborately carved and gilt wood frame with nicks and losses to the gilt.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Prof.  Francesco Frangi for confirming the attribution to Giuseppe Vermiglio, on the basis of a photograph.

The composition of this painting relates to a larger scale work by Vermiglio, signed and dated 1622, in the Pinacoteca Brera, Milan (oil on canvas, 230 by 250 cm.).  The present painting differs from the Brera version in the figures and animals at the right side of the composition.  Several other small scale versions with the same composition as the present work are known and have been given to Bernardino Cesari (Arpino 1571 - 1622 Rome) by Herwarth Röttgen.1

1.  See H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Rome 2002, pp. 525-526, figs. 12-14