Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen
Domenico Beccafumi
The Madonna, Saint Joseph, the Infant Baptist and an angel adoring the Infant Christ: The “Feigen Adoration”
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October 18, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Domenico Beccafumi
Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti 1484 - 1551 Siena
The Madonna, Saint Joseph, the Infant Baptist and an angel adoring the Infant Christ: The “Feigen Adoration”
oil on panel, with an arched top, unframed
panel: 22 by 14 7/8 in.; 55.9 by 37.8 cm.
His sale, Brussels, Galerie Fievez, 24 May 1904, lot 449 (as Sodoma);
Prince Golinicheff-Koutousoff, Saint Petersburg;
Nicholas Raibouchinsky, Moscow;
His sale, New York, American Art Association, 26 April 1916, lot 15 (as Sodoma);
There acquired by Kleinberger Galleries;
Jules Bache, New York;
By whose estate sold, New York, Kende Galleries, 23 April 1945, lot 22 (as Girolamo del Pacchia);
There acquired by Julius H. Weitzner, London;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 12 July 1979 (as Sodoma).
A. de Marchi, “Maestro delle Eroine Chigi-Saracini,” in Da Sodoma a Marco Pino, Pittori a Siena nella prima metà del Cinquecento, F. Sricchia Santoro (ed.), Siena 1988, p. 87 (as the Master of the Chigi-Saraceni Heroines);
F. Sricchia Santoro, Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhibition catalogue, Siena 1990, pp. 270-271 (as the Master of the Feigen Adoration);
G. Fattorini, “Alcune questioni di ambito beccafumiano: Il ‘Maestro delle Eroine Chigi Saracini’ e il ‘Capanna Senese,’” in Beccafumi, P. Torriti (ed.), Milan 1998, p. 50, note 8;
L. B. Kanter, “Luca Signorelli and Girolamo Genga in Princeton,” in Record, Princeton University Art Museum, vol. 62 (2003), p. 83, nos. 38-39 (as possibly by Capanna Senese);
L. Kanter and J. Marciari, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, New Haven 2010, pp. 114-117, cat. no. 35, reproduced in color, p. 115;
A. Angelini, “Gli esordi di Beccafumi e la pittura a Siena nel primo decennio del Cinquecento,” in Il buon secolo della pittura senese: Dalla maniera moderna al lume caravaggesco, Ospedaletto-Pisa 2017, exhibition catalogue, p. 31, reproduced, p. 32, fig. 11;
E. Zappasodi, “Un Avvio Inquieto. La ‘Madonna col Bambino e San Giovannino’: Orintia Carletti Bonucci di Perugia e il giovane Beccafumi,” in Il giovane Domenico Beccafumi e l’arte a Siena al tempo di Pandolfo Petrucci, A. Angelini and M. Fagiani (eds.), Annali di Studi Umanistici, vol. V, 2017, pp. 59-61, and note 13.
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May – 12 September 2010, no. 35 (as by “Capanna Senese”).