Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
The Property of a Private Collector
Carlo Amalfi
Portrait of an architect, half-length, in a red coat and white stock, holding a pair of compasses, standing before a column
Lot Closed
April 28, 02:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Private Collector
Carlo Amalfi
Sorrento 1707-1787 Naples
Portrait of an architect, half-length, in a red coat and white stock, holding a pair of compasses, standing before a column
oil on canvas
unframed: 100.8 x 77.3 cm.; 39⅝ x 30⅜ in.
framed: 118.5 x 93 cm.; 46⅝ x 36⅝ in.
With Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by Mr and Mrs E.M. Ayers, in 1940, for the Art Institute of Zanesville, now the Zanesville Art Center;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2006, lot 210 (as Carlo Amalfi);
Where acquired by the present owner.
From whom acquired by Mr and Mrs E.M. Ayers, in 1940, for the Art Institute of Zanesville, now the Zanesville Art Center;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 27 January 2006, lot 210 (as Carlo Amalfi);
Where acquired by the present owner.
Art Institute Fifth Anniversary of the Opening Catalogue, Zanesville 1940, under 'Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection', cat. no. 4 (as Solimena);
Art News, 12 October 1940, reproduced on the cover;
T.C. Howe, Jr, Italian Baroque Painting, exh. cat., San Francisco 1941, cat. no. 103, reproduced p. 49 (as Solimena);
Art Institute Zanesville, Ohio, Catalogue 1942, Zanesville 1942, pp. 8–9, cat. no. 4, reproduced (as Solimena);
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, p. 191 (as Solimena).
Art News, 12 October 1940, reproduced on the cover;
T.C. Howe, Jr, Italian Baroque Painting, exh. cat., San Francisco 1941, cat. no. 103, reproduced p. 49 (as Solimena);
Art Institute Zanesville, Ohio, Catalogue 1942, Zanesville 1942, pp. 8–9, cat. no. 4, reproduced (as Solimena);
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, p. 191 (as Solimena).
When the painting was offered at auction in 2006 the attribution to Carlo Amalfi was endorsed by Professor Nicola Spinosa.