Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino

Landscape with a Hermit

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October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Attributed to Domenico Zampieri, called Domenichino

Bologna 1581 - 1641 Naples

Landscape with a Hermit

oil on canvas

canvas: 16 by 20 7/8 in.; 40.5 by 43 cm.

framed: 28 1/4 by 23 1/4 in.; 71.5 by 59 cm.

Everard Jabach, Paris, no. 582, by 1696;
Manor House Antiques, The Square, Stowe-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, March 1973;
There acquired by Richard L. Feigen.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Mead Art Museum, Major Themes in Roman Baroque Art from Regional Collections, 1974, no. 83;
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May - 12 September 2010, no. 45 (as Domenichino).

Vicomte de Grouchy, "Everhard Jabach, collectionneur parisien (1695)," in Mémoires de la Société de l'Histoire de Paris et de l'Île de France, XXI, 1894, p. 278, no. 582;
G. Gent, "Lost Domenichino Is Found and Bought for $392," in New York Times, June 19, 1973, p. 32;
L. Salerno, Pittori de paesaggio del seicento a Roma/Landscape Painters of the Seventeenth Century in Rome, vol. I, Rome 1976, I, pp. 81, 102, cat. no. 19.3;
R.E. Spear, Domenichino, New Haven 1982, vol. I, p. 317 (as a copy after Pietro Paolo Bonzi);
L. Salerno, "Review of Domenichino, by Richard Spear," in Storia dell'arte, L, 1984, p. 88;
A. Brejon de Lavergnée, L'inventaire Le Brun de 1683: La collection des tableaux de Louix XIV, Paris 1987, p. 297 (as a copy after Domenichino);
C. Whitfield, "Les paysage du Domenichino et de Viola," in Monuments et mémoires, LXIX, 1988, p. 106, no. 92 (as Grimaldi?);
R.E. Spear, "Domenichino addenda," in Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, 1989, p. 11, no. 44 (as a copy after Pietro Paolo Bonzi);
S. Loire, École italienne, XVIIe siècle, I, Bologne, Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, Paris 1996, pp. 214, 216 (as a copy after Domenichino).

This beautiful pastoral landscape is a representative example of Domenichino's landscape style, one in which the raw beauty of nature serves as the protagonist of the composition. Like his other works in this genre, the landscape speaks for itself, with the figures serving a pivotal, but supporting role to the overall natural views.

This particular composition is known in three versions. The present work, a reduced painting (30 by 37 cm.) in the Louvre, and a third, larger (47 by 59 cm.) example in the Galleria Doria-Pamphilij, Rome. While the Doria-Pamhilij version is now generally attributed to Domenichino's follower Pietro Paolo Bonzi, the primacy of the present example in comparison to the Louvre version is debated, given their nearly identical compositions and quality. While the present work has been put forward as the prime version by Luigi Salerno and others (see Literature), Stéphane Loire has argued for the Louvre version as the original, which Dennis Mahon also suggests.