Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

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Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Valentin de Boulogne

Christ crowned with thorns

Auction Closed

January 26, 03:17 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Valentin de Boulogne

Coulommiers 1591 - 1632 Rome

Christ crowned with thorns


oil on canvas

canvas: 57½ by 41⅞ in.; 146.1 by 106.4 cm.

framed: 66⅛ by 50¾ in.; 168.0 by 128.9 cm.

Avvocato Rainoldi, Milan, by 1943;
Private collector, Munich, by 1973;
Private collector, England, by 1989;
With Giacomo Algranti & Co., Ltd., London, 1994;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 11 January 1996, lot 118;
Where acquired by A. Alfred Taubman (1924-2015), New York and Detroit;
His estate sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 27 January 2016, lot 20 (for $5,178,000);
Where acquired by the present collectors.
R. Longhi, "Ultima studi sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia—Ultimissime sul Caravaggio," in Proporzioni, Studi di Storia dell’Arte 1 (1943), p. 58, under no. 80;
R. Longhi, "A propos de Valentin," in Revue des Arts 2 (March-April 1958), p. 61;
R. Longhi, "Terbrugghen e Valentin," in Paragone 131 (November 1960), pp. 58-59, reproduced fig. 44;
A. Bréjon de Lavergnée and J.P. Cuzin, I Caravaggeschi francesi, Rome 1973, p. 244;
J.P. Cuzin, "Problèmes du caravagisme, Pour Valentin," in Revue de l'Art 28 (1975), p. 57;
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and his Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, p. 104;
C. Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Boston 1985, p. 268;
M. Mojana, Valentin de Boulogne, Milan 1989, p. 52, cat. no. 1, reproduced fig. 1;
B. Nicolson and L. Vertova, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford 1989, vol. I, p. 202;
O. Melasecchi, in I Caravaggeschi, Percorsi e protagonisti, Alessandro Zuccari (ed.), Milan 2010, vol. II, p. 733;
G. Papi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Soncino 2013, p. 48, reproduced fig. 80;
Valentin de Boulogne, exhibition catalogue, A. Lemoine and K. Christiansen (eds.), New York 2016, pp. 5-6, 33, 37, 39, 51, 55, 95-97, cat. no. 7, reproduced in color.