Roman artist active in the ambit of the young Caravaggio, circa 1590-1600

Portrait of a woman, half length

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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the San Diego Museum of Art

Roman artist active in the ambit of the young Caravaggio, circa 1590-1600

Portrait of a woman, half length

oil on canvas

canvas: 29 ⅜ by 23 ¾ in.; 75.9 by 60.3 cm.

framed: 37 ½ by 31 ½ in.; 95.2 by 80 cm.

Please note that the catalogue entry for this lot has been updated online. Please also note the addition of the following 2016 publication by Franco Moro to the cataloguing of this lot. F. Moro, Caravaggio Sconosciuto: Le origini del Merisi, eccellente disegnatore, maestro di ritratti e di “cose naturali”, Turin 2016, pp. 128-129, reproduced fig. 137, plate 122 (as the young Caravaggio).

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 July 1924, lot 21 (as Sofonisba Anguissola, said to be a portrait of the artist);
With Dr. Hans Schaeffer Gallery, Berlin, by 1926/8;
With Jacob M. Heimann, by 1939;
From whom acquired by Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam (as Caravaggio);
By whom gifted to the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, 1942 (inv. no. 1942.26)

H. Voss, "An Unknown Early Work by Caravaggio," in Burlington Magazine, 51, 1927, pp. 180-183, reproduced plate 1A (as Caravaggio);

Masterpieces of Art at the New York World's Fair, New York 1940, no. 44;

H. Voss, "Ein unbekanntes Frühwerk Caravaggio," in Die Kunst, 1941, pp. 410-412 (German reprint of Voss 1927);

E.P. Richardson, "The Caravaggio Portrait in San Diego," in Art Quarterly, 1942, pp. 183-188 (as Caravaggio);

R. Longhi, "Ultimi studi sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia," in Proporzioni, 1, 1943, p. 39 (as possibly Ottavio Leoni);

J.G. Andrews, A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870, San Diego 1947, pp. 32-33 (as Caravaggio);

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego 1960, pp. 69-70;

R. Jullian, Caravage, Lyon and Paris 1961, pp. 36, 40, 65, 231 (under section of doubtful works, but datable to circa 1590);

A. Ottino della Chiesa, L'Opera completa del Caravaggio, Milan 1967, pp. 109-110;

M. Kitson, The Complete Paintings of Caravaggio, London 1969, p. 111, cat. no. 109, reproduced p. 109 (under section of works formerly attributed to Caravaggio);

B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings, Cambridge, MA 1972, pp. 44, 631 (as attributed to Caravaggio);

M. Marini, "Gli esordi del Caravaggio e il concetto di 'natura' nei primi decenni del Seicento a Roma," in Artibus et Historiae, 2.4, 1981, p. 41, 60, 61, reproduced fig. 3 (as Caravaggio, datable to circa 1594);

M. Marini, "Un Ritratto di donna con collana d'oro del Caravaggio," in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Federico Zeri, Milan 1984, vol. 2, pp. 580-587;

H.W. Kruft, “Ottavio Leoni als Porträtmaler,” in Storia dell’arte, 72, 1991 (as Ottavio Leoni);

M. Marini, in Caravaggio e il Genio di Roma: 1592-1623, exhibition catalogue, Rome 2001, p. 40 (attributed to Caravaggio);

F. Solinas, "La Signora degli Scorpioni. Un inedito di Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630) e qualche ritratto romano del tempo di Caravaggio," in C. Volpi (ed.), Caravaggio nel IV Centenario della Capella Contarelli, Atti del Covegno Internazionale di Studi, Rome 2001, p. 250, reproduced fig. 15 (as Leoni, datable circa 1595-1600);

B. Sani, La fatica virtuosa di Ottavio Leoni, Turin 2005, pp. 30-31 (as Leoni, datable circa 1600-1610);

F. Petrucci, Pittura di ritratto a Roma. Il Seicento, Rome 2008, vol. III, p. 514 (as possibly Caravaggio);

F. Solinas, Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630), Le portraits de Berlin, Rome 2013, pp. 22, reprduced fig. 13 (as Leoni, dated circa 1603-1605);

J. Marciari, Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings before 1850 in the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego 2015, pp. 190-193, cat. no. 38, reproduced (as Attributed to Caravaggio, circa 1592-1594);

F. Moro, Caravaggio Sconosciuto: Le origini del Merisi, eccellente disegnatore, maestro di ritratti e di “cose naturali”, Turin 2016, pp. 128-129, reproduced fig. 137, plate 122 (as the young Caravaggio);

Y. Primarosa, Ottavio Leoni 1578-1630): eccellente miniator di ritratto: catalogo ragionato dei disegni e dei dipinti, Rome 2017, p. 674, cat. no. 19, reproduced fig. 38 (as Ottavio Leoni, and datable to circa 1603-1605).