The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Artist
- Pedro Fernández da Murcia
- Also Known As
- Pseudo-Bramantino
- Artist Dates
- 1480-1521
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Previous Attribution
- Francesco Napoletano
- Title
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 97.7 x 54.6 cm (31-3/8 x 21-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1763
- Repository
- Austin Arts Center
- Notes
Provenance
Han Coray-Stoop [1880-1974], Erlenbach, Switzerland; (his sale, Wertheim, Berlin, 1 October 1930, no. 17). Zerman, Zurich. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to th Samuel H.Kress Foundation on 1 July 1950; gift to Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, in 1961
Catalogue Entry
Pedro Fernández da Murcia
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
K1763
Hartford, Conn., Trinity College, Study Collection, since 1961.(1) Wood. 31 3/8 x 21 1/2 in. (79.7 x 54.6 cm.). Fair condition; restored in vertical split through middle of panel. The heavy-featured figures find sufficiently close parallels in signed paintings by Francesco Napoletano to recommend the attribution of K1763 to this follower of Leonardo,(2) about 1500. Further, stylistic relationship to paintings by Spanish Leonardesque artists such as Llanos and Yañez, whom Francesco Napoletano may have known in Naples, has been cited.(3) In the oeuvre thus far attributed to Francesco Napoletano K1763 seems to offer the most conspicuous example of the type of landscape setting with fantastic rock formations widespread in art at the time and made especially popular by Leonardo. Provenance: Han Coray, Erlenbach, Switzerland (sold, Wertheim's, Berlin, Oct. 1, 1930, no. 17 of catalogue by O. Fischel, as Francesco Napoletano). Zerman, Zurich. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1950.
References
(1) J. C. E. Taylor in Cesare Barbieri Courier, vol. IV, no. 1, 1961, p. 19, as unknown artist. (2) For reproductions of comparable paintings see notes 4 and 5 to K1565. K1763 was, according to the Coray sale catalogue of 1930, attributed by G. Gronau to the Master of the Pala Sforzesca. It is indeed closely related to a Madonna with St. James and a Donor, in the F. Cora Collection, Turin, which is attributed to this master by W. E. Suida (Leonardo und sein Kreis, 1929, fig. 183). R. Longhi (in ms. opinion) attributes K1763 emphatically to Francesco Napoletano. (3) Longhi, opinion cited in note 2, above.