Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Giovanni Lanfranco
Noli me tangere
Auction Closed
October 18, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Lanfranco
Parma 1582 - 1647 Rome
Noli me tangere
inscribed on reverse with painted inventory number: 311
oil on copper
copper: 9 by 7 3/4 in.; 22.9 by 19.7 cm.
framed: 13 7/8 by 12 3/8 in.; 35.2 by 31.4 cm.
Maria Maddalena Farnese, Palazzo Ducale, Parma, by 1693 (inventory 1693);
Thence by inheritance to her brother, Antonio Farnese, Palazzo Ducale, Parma, by 1708, until at least 1731 (inventories 1708, 1731, 1736);
Thence by inheritance to Carlo di Barbone, later King Charles III of Spain (who inherited the Farnese title in 1731), by 1736, Parma and Naples (the painting was brought to Naples by 1745, probably in 1736, but is unrecorded in subsequent inventories and was perhaps taken from Naples by French troops circa 1797, though almost certainly left between 1767-1821);
Private collection, England;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 December 1972, lot 59;
With Herner Wengraf, London, 1974;
Acquired by Richard L. Feigen, before 1980.
Thence by inheritance to her brother, Antonio Farnese, Palazzo Ducale, Parma, by 1708, until at least 1731 (inventories 1708, 1731, 1736);
Thence by inheritance to Carlo di Barbone, later King Charles III of Spain (who inherited the Farnese title in 1731), by 1736, Parma and Naples (the painting was brought to Naples by 1745, probably in 1736, but is unrecorded in subsequent inventories and was perhaps taken from Naples by French troops circa 1797, though almost certainly left between 1767-1821);
Private collection, England;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 December 1972, lot 59;
With Herner Wengraf, London, 1974;
Acquired by Richard L. Feigen, before 1980.
A.J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, vol. I, Paris 1745, p. 305, vol. II, Paris 1762, p. 146;
E. Schleier, "Two Lanfranco Paintings from the Farnese Collections," in J.B. Speed Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1, 1979, pp. 2-15;
J.T. Spike, Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Princeton 1980, p. 27, cat. no. 27, reproduced;
G. Bertini, La galleria del Duca di Parma: Storia di una collezione, Bologna 1987, p. 117, cat. no. 94, reproduced;
E. Negro and M. Pirondini, La scuola dei Carracci: I seguaci di Annibale e Agostino, Modena 1995, p. 192;
L. Fornari Scianchi and N. Spinosa, eds., I Farnese: Art e collezionismo, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1995, pp. 320-322, cat. no. 113, reproduced;
M. Utili, in Giovanni Lanfranco: Un pittore barocco tra Parma, Roma, e Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2001, E. Schleier, ed., pp. 324-325, cat. no. 107, reproduced;
C. Robertson, The Invention of Annibale Carracci, Milan 2008, p. 130, note 162;
L. Kanter and J. Marciari, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 160-162, cat. no. 49, reproduced.
E. Schleier, "Two Lanfranco Paintings from the Farnese Collections," in J.B. Speed Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1, 1979, pp. 2-15;
J.T. Spike, Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Princeton 1980, p. 27, cat. no. 27, reproduced;
G. Bertini, La galleria del Duca di Parma: Storia di una collezione, Bologna 1987, p. 117, cat. no. 94, reproduced;
E. Negro and M. Pirondini, La scuola dei Carracci: I seguaci di Annibale e Agostino, Modena 1995, p. 192;
L. Fornari Scianchi and N. Spinosa, eds., I Farnese: Art e collezionismo, exhibition catalogue, Milan 1995, pp. 320-322, cat. no. 113, reproduced;
M. Utili, in Giovanni Lanfranco: Un pittore barocco tra Parma, Roma, e Napoli, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2001, E. Schleier, ed., pp. 324-325, cat. no. 107, reproduced;
C. Robertson, The Invention of Annibale Carracci, Milan 2008, p. 130, note 162;
L. Kanter and J. Marciari, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 160-162, cat. no. 49, reproduced.