Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from a Midwest Private Collection

Cesare Dandini

Still life of two shelducks hanging from their bills

Auction Closed

January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Midwest Private Collection

Cesare Dandini

Florence 1596 - 1657

Still life of two shelducks hanging from their bills


oil on canvas

32 ½ by 27 ½ in.; 82.6 by 69.9 cm.

Cardinal Giovan Carlo de' Medici (1599 - 1648), Casino di Via della Scala, 1647, later Villa di Castello, 1663, and sold by auction by 1664;
Purchased in Italy by Charles Stuart Street (b. 1864), Cape Cod, MA, before 1930;
James Pfeufer, Cape Cod, MA, 1964;
Robert Champion III, Grosse Point, MI, 1965;
Acquired by present owner, 1970.

S. Perlove, “An unpublished Medici gamepiece by Justus Sustermans”, in The Burlington Magazine 131 (1989), pp. 411-414, fig. 47 (as Giusto Suttermans);
E. Fumagalli, “Don Lorenzo (1599-1648)” in Il giardino del Granduca. Natura morta nelle collezioni medicee, Marco Chiarini (ed.), Turin 1997, pp. 83, 87, note 42 (as Suttermans?);
S. Casciu in Natura morta italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento, Mina Gregori (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Milan 2002, p. 266 (as Suttermans);
S. Bellesi in Il Corridoio vasariano agli Uffizi, Caterina Caneva (ed.), Cinisello Balsamo 2002, p. 127, under no. 16 (as possibly by Cesare Dandini?);
S. Bellesi, Cesare Dandini. Addenda al catalogo dei dipinti, Florence 2007, pp. 32-33, reproduced in color fig. 30 (as Dandini);
E. Fumagalli, “Tendenze della Natura morta in Toscana nell’età di Galileo”, in Il cannocchiale e il pennello, Nuova scienza e nuova arte nell’età di Galileo, exhibition catalogue, Florence 2009, pp. 252-256, 262, note 11, 375-376, under cat. no. 124, reproduced p. 252 (as Suttermans?);
C. Profeti in Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Museo della Natura Morta. Catalogo dei dipinti, Stefano Casciu (ed.), Livorno 2009, p. 383, under no. 153 (as Suttermans);
G. Romagnoli in Per utilità e per diletto. “Cittadini in Villa”, exhibition catalogue, Livorno 2010, p. 76, under cat. no. 19 (as Suttermans).