Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- Artist
- Bernardo Strozzi
- Artist Dates
- 1460/1461-1528
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- Date
- c. 1615
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 149.6 x 98.1 cm (58-7/8 x 38-5/8 in)
- K Number
- K1640
- Repository
- Columbia Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- CMA 1954.38
- Notes
Provenance
Private Collection, Genoa, in 1947. [1] (Ars Antiqua, New York); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 5 April 1949; gift to the Columbia Museum of Art in 1961, no. CMA 1954.38. [1] Exhibited at Pittura del Seicento e Settecento in Liguria, Palazzo Reale, Genoa, 21 June - 30 September 1947, no. 47, as St. Ursula.
Catalogue Entry
Bernardo Strozzi
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
K1640
Tucson, Ariz., University of Arizona (61.115), since 1959. Canvas. 30 x 24 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61.6 cm.). Very good condition. A typical painting from Ghislandi's mature period,(1) probably about 1735, K1641 shows one of his favorite subjects, a young pupil. This boy is not dressed in a foreign costume, as is the one in K1766B, but as he might commonly be seen, in the artist's studio, surrounded by studio properties. The former title, The Young Sculptor,(2) may well be misleading; the two sculptured heads are likely models from which the young pupil practices drawing; his crayon rests on the mask at the left. Provenance: Dott. Cav. Giovanni Piccinelli, Seriate (Bergamo) –exhibited: 'Il Ritratto Italiano dal Caravaggio al Tiepolo,' Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1911, p. 164 of list published in 1911, and p. 150 of a large catalogue of the same exhibition published in 1927, as A Young Artist, by Ghislandi. Ercole Piccinelli, Seriate (Bergamo). Ars Antiqua, New York. Kress acquisition, 1949 –exhibited: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa., 1950-53.3
References
(1) K1641 is assigned to Ghislandi's maturity by W. E. Suida, loc. cit. in note 3, below. (2) See note 3, below. (3) Suida, in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, XLVI, Autumn 1950, p. 18, as Ghislandi, The Young Sculptor.