LOT 36 Tancred baptising Clorinda Emilian Schoolearly 17th Century
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133.5 x 206.5cm (52 9/16 x 81 5/16in).
Emilian School, early 17th Century
Tancred baptising Clorinda oil on canvas133.5 x 206.5cm (52 9/16 x 81 5/16in).
|ProvenanceSale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1978, lot 76 (as Giuseppe Caletti, called il Cremonese, one of a pair)Sale, Christie's London, 11 December 1981, lot 2 (as Pier Francesco Mola)Sale, Christie's London, 8 December 1989, lot 121 (as Pier Francesco Mola)LiteratureT. Pignatti, Five Centuries of Italian Painting, 1300-1800, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Texas, 1985, p. 134First published in 1977 by Erich Schleier, the author of the present Tancred baptising Clorinda and its former pendant Erminia and Vafrino mourning the death of Tancred (now in the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas), has been under discussion ever since. In his 1977 article Erich Schleier proposed an attribution to Pier Francesco Mola for the Erminia and Vafrino1. The pair was then offered on the art market the following year as by Giuseppe Caletti, called il Cremonese (c. 1600-c.1660), an artist of Cremonese origins active mainly in Ferrara. When the pair was later sold by Christie's on 8 December 1989, lot 121, as the work of Pier Francesco Mola, an alternative attribution to the Bolognese Emilio Savonanzi (1580-1666) was suggested. In his most recent monograph on Mola, Francesco Petrucci does not accept the attribution of the Erminia and Vafrino mourning the death of Tancred and lists it under 'Doubtful and Rejected works2. Whilst the landscape in the present painting does certainly recall those of Pier Francesco Mola, such as that in his Bacchus and Ariadne, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, the figures are less like his. Notes1. See E. Schleier, 'Pier Francesco Mola and S. Maria della Quercia', in Antichita' viva, vol. 16, no. 6 (1977), pp. 21-22 2. See F. Petrucci, Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) Materia e colore nella pittura del '600, Rome 2012, p. 493, cat. no. E35 (Doubtful and Rejected works)
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