Bernardo Cavallino

Saint Bartholomew

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January 26, 03:17 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection

Bernardo Cavallino

Naples 1618 - 1654

Saint Bartholomew

oil on canvas

canvas: 70⅜ by 50 in.; 178.8 by 127 cm.

framed: 84¼ by 64¾ in.; 214.0 by 164.5 cm.

Francesco Cavallino (d. 1677), Naples (15 May 1677 posthumous inv. no. 43);

Thence by descent to one of his sons, 1677;

Ignazio Provenzale (d. 1693), Duke of Collecorvino, Naples (1 August 1693 posthumous inv. no. 8);

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Giovanna Provenzale (1651-1693), Naples, (7 September 1693 posthumous inv. no. 8);

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 April 1903, lot 103 (as Ribera);

Where acquired by Farr;

Private collector, Netherlands, by 1988;

By whom anonymously sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 8 February 1988, lot 146 (as Spanish School, 17th Century);

From where acquired by P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London and New York;

From whom acquired by Mauro Herlitzka, New York and Buenos Aires, 1991;

From whom acquired by the present collectors, 1997.

J. Spike, in Master Paintings, 1350-1800, exhibition catalogue, London 1989, pp. 54-55, reproduced in color;
N. Spinosa, “Altre aggiunte a Bernardo Cavallino e qualche precisazione sui rapporti con Nicolas Poussin e la sua cerchia,” in Paragone 41, no. 485 (June 1990), pp. 44-45, 57 note 4, reproduced fig. 26;
N. Hall, Colnaghi in America, A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi New York, New York 1992, p. 68, reproduced in color;
Collections of Paintings in Naples, 1600-1780, G. Labrot (ed.), Munich 1992, pp. 137, 177;
E.M. Zafran, in Botticelli to Tiepolo: Three Centuries of Italian Painting from Bob Jones University, exhibition catalogue, Seattle 1994, p. 98, reproduced fig. 23;
N. Spinosa, "Un autoritratto e altri inediti di Bernardo Cavallino," in L'intelligenza della passione, Scritti per Andrea Emiliani, M. Scolaro and F.P. di Teodoro (eds.), San Giorgio di Piano 2001, p. 578 note 2;
N. Spinosa, Pittura del Seicento a Napoli, Da Caravaggio a Massimo Stanzione, Naples 2010, pp. 193-194, cat. no. 61, reproduced;
N. Spinosa, in Grazia e tenerezza ‘in posa’: Bernardo Cavallino e il suo tempo 1616-1656, Rome 2013, pp. 366-367, cat. no. 102, reproduced p. 367 and in color fig. 155.