CESARE DANDINI | Saint George

Possibly Dandini collection, Florence (according to Bellesi 1996, see Literature);
Possibly Targioni Tozzetti collection, Florence (according to Bellesi);
Acquired by Adolphe Stein in the 1970s;
Thence by descent to the present owner.

S. Bellesi, ‘Una Vita inedita di Vicenzo Dandini e appunti su Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Giovan Battista Marmi, Filippo Maria Galletti, e altri’, in Paragone, no. 465, 1988, p. 104;
S. Bellesi, Cesare Dandini, Turin 1996, pp. 137–38, cat. no. 81, reproduced p. 138, fig. 81.

The canvas is lined, the paint surface is clean and the varnish is clear but slightly uneven. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals sensitively executed retouchings in the saint's forehead, nose and cheeks, scattered in his hands and blue robe, and in the background upper left and around the silhouette of his hand. In overall good condition. Offered in a carved and plaster gilt wood frame.
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Sandro Bellesi (see Literature) dates this Saint George to the early 1640s and notes its similarities with Dandini's canvas of a similar date depicting the Archangel Michael in the collection at the Cassa di Risparmio, Prato.¹ 1 See Bellesi 1996, p. 84, cat. no. 31, reproduced.