Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from a Private New York Collection
Carlo Sellitto
Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist
Auction Closed
May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private New York Collection
Carlo Sellitto
Naples 1580 - 1614
Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist
inscribed with inventory number lower right: 1075
oil on canvas
canvas: 42 ⅝ by 54 in.; 108.2 by 137.1 cm.
framed: 55 ⅝ by 65 ¾ in.; 141.3 by 167 cm.
Private collection, Italy;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 29 June 2019.
From whom acquired by the present collector, 29 June 2019.
V. Farina, Artemisia e i pittori del conte: la collezione di Giangirolamo II Acquaviva d'Aragon, exhibition catalogue, Cava de' Tirreni 2018, pp. 174-177, cat. no. 4, reproduced (as Carlo Sellitto);
G. Porzio, Carlo Sellitto 1580-1614, Naples 2019, p. 209, under cat. no. B8 (as a version);
M. C. Terzaghi, in Caravaggio a Napoli, Rome 2019, p. 58, notes 84 and 94 (with reference to the Farina rediscovery);
V. Farina, "Echi della Salomé de Caravaggio in Azzolino, Sellitto e Ribera," in Caravaggio a Napoli: nuovi dati e nuove idee, a cura di M.C. Terzaghi in Studi di Storia dell'Arte.Speciali, Todi 2021 (forthcoming).
G. Porzio, Carlo Sellitto 1580-1614, Naples 2019, p. 209, under cat. no. B8 (as a version);
M. C. Terzaghi, in Caravaggio a Napoli, Rome 2019, p. 58, notes 84 and 94 (with reference to the Farina rediscovery);
V. Farina, "Echi della Salomé de Caravaggio in Azzolino, Sellitto e Ribera," in Caravaggio a Napoli: nuovi dati e nuove idee, a cura di M.C. Terzaghi in Studi di Storia dell'Arte.Speciali, Todi 2021 (forthcoming).