
Property from the Estate of Stanley Moss
Allegory of Music
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February 5, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Stanley Moss
Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto, and Workshop
Venice 1518 - 1594
Allegory of Music
oil on canvas
canvas: 133 ⅞ by 96 ⅞ in.; 340.0 by 246.1 cm
framed: 134 ⅝ by 97 ⅝ in.; 342.0 by 248.0 cm
Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence, by 1940;
Thence by inheritance within his family, Florence;
From whom acquired, circa 1970.
Princeton University Art Museum, long-term loan, 1988;
Athens, National Gallery of Greece, O Gkreko stēn Italia kai i italikē technē [El Greco in Italy and Italian Art], 18 September - 31 December 1995, no. 17 (lent by Stanley Moss).
L. Coletti, Il Tintoretto, Bergamo 1940, p. 16, reproduced fig. 41 (as Tintoretto, late 1560s);
E. von der Bercken, Die Gemälde des Jacopo Tintoretto, Munich 1942, p. 110, cat. no. 117, reproduced pl. 33 (as Tintoretto, 1544-1550);
L. Coletti, Il Tintoretto, Bergamo 1944, p. 22 (as Tintoretto, 1550s)
R. Pallucchini, La Giovinezza del Tintoretto, Milan 1950, p. 152 (as Tintoretto, 1550-1555);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 173 (as Tintoretto);
C. Bernari, L'opera completa del Tintoretto, Milan 1970, p. 101, cat. no. 134, reproduced (as Tintoretto, 1559-1560);
R. Pallucchini and P. Rossi, Tintoretto, Le opere sacre e profane, Milan 1982, vol. I, p. 178, cat. no. 221.; vol. II, reproduced fig. 287 (as Tintoretto, circa 1558)
E. Weddigen, "Jacopo Tintoretto und die Musik," in Artibus et Historiae 5, no. 10 (1984), pp. 83, 88 (as Tintoretto);
P. Hills, in O Gkreko stēn Italia kai i italikē technē [El Greco in Italy and Italian Art], exhibition catalogue, N. Chatzēnikolaou (ed.), Athens 1995, pp. 160-164, 447-449, cat. no. 17, reproduced (as Tintoretto, 1558-1559);
R. Echols and F. Ilchman, "Toward a New Tintoretto Catalogue with a Checklist of Revised Attributions and a New Chronology," in Jacopo Tintoretto, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Jacopo Tintoretto, M. Falomir (ed.), Madrid 2009, p. 142, cat. no. S27 (as Workshop of Tintoretto, circa 1580).