Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
- Artist
- Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari
- Artist Dates
- active 1630s
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 114.3 x 132.1 cm (45 x 52 in)
- K Number
- K1530
- Repository
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.39
- Notes
Provenance
(Julius Weitzner, New York); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 2 March 1948 as Italian 17th century; gift to El Paso Museum of Art in 1961, no. 1961.1.39.
Catalogue Entry
Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari
Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
K1530
El Paso, Tex., El Paso Museum of Art (1961-6/35), since 1961.(1) Canvas. 45 x 52 in. (114.3 x 132.1 cm.). Good condition. Echoes of Strozzi's technique, together with a suggestion of van Dyck's elegance in the figure types, have led to the classification of K1530 among the considerable number of paintings from the story of Joseph which are attributed to de Ferrari.(2) Only slightly less closely related to the style of K1530 are paintings by Gioachino Asserto.(3) The particular episode shown here (from Genesis 37:31-33) appears in another version, with full-length figures, in a larger canvas by de Ferrari in the Corsini Gallery, Rome.(4) Simpler in composition and less elegant in figure types than paintings which fall within the deinitely documented period of the artist's career (before 1635),(6) K1530 may have been painted about 1640. Provenance: Julis Weitzner's, New York. Kress acquisition, 1948.
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1961, no. 35, as de Ferrari. (2) The attribution to de Ferrari was first suggested by M. Modestini (verbally). (3) See G. V. Castelnovi, in Emporium, vol. CXX, July 1954, pp. 17 ff. (4) Reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition 'Pittori Genovesi del Seicento e del Settecento,' Genoa, 1938, pl. 35. (5) See A. M. Goffredo, in Commentari, vol. VII, 1956, pp. 147 ff.