Cesare Dandini

Del Chiaro family, Palazzo del Chiaro, Via de’ Ginori, Florence;

Pier Giovanni del Chiaro, by whom donated with the contents of the Palazzo del Chiaro to the charitable confraternity the Compagnia della Purificazione della Vergine e di San Zenobi, Chiesa di San Marco, Florence;

By whom sold with the entire del Chiaro collection by auction in 1743;

Probably acquired soon thereafter by Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Bt, later Lord Le Despencer (1708–1781), West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire;

Thence by family descent to Sir Francis Dashwood, 11th Bt (1925–2000), West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire;

By whom sold London, Christie's, 11 April 1986, lot 76, to Algranti;

Victoria Press (1927–2015), Cheyne Walk, London;

Her sale (‘Cheyne Walk, An Interior by Victoria Press’), London, Christie’s, 18 November 2015, lot 120;

There acquired by the present collector.

Inventory of the Del Chiaro family picture gallery, Palazzo del Chiaro, dated 7 August 1741, in Archivio di Stato Firenze, Compagnie Religiose soppresse da Pietro Leopoldo, Compagnia della Purificazione della Vergine e di San Zenobi, no. 1659, Florence, n.p., no. 270: ‘Due quadri con cornice nera con rapport Dorati e parte di detta cornice dorata fatti in figura di ottangolo che in uno vi é il ritratto di S. Caterina delle route e nell’altro il ritratto di S. Rosa [sic] di Cesare Dandini’ (‘Two paintings with black frames with gilded touches and part of the said frame gilded with octagonal figures which in one is the portrait of Saint Catherine of the wheels and in the other, the portrait of Saint Rosa by Cesare Dandini’);

T. Langley, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, London 1797, pp. 415–17, as hanging in the Drawing Room;

Inventory, Hanover Square 1781–West Wycombe Park 1782, no. 25, as hanging in the Portico Room;

Apollo Magazine, January 1979 (Saint Dorothy reproduced fig. 4);

C. McCorquodale, ‘A Dark Century. The English Taste for Later Tuscan Painting’, The Connoisseur, March 1979, p. 176, nos 8 and 9, reproduced;

C. McCorquodale, in Painting in Florence, exh. cat., London 1979, pp. 38–41, nos 12 and 13;

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, Fiesole 1983, p. 57;

S. Bellesi, Cesare Dandini, Turin 1996, pp. 38, 168–69, no. 113, both reproduced;

S. Bellesi in Teatralità del Barocco Fiorentino, F. Berti and G. Luzzetti (eds), exh. cat., Florence 2007, p. 40, no. 5;

F. Baldassari, La pittura del Seicento a Firenze: Indice degli artisti e delle loro opere, Milan 2009, p. 255;

S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei Pittori Fiorentini del ’600 e ’700, 3 vols, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 121;

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, 2 vols, Pontedera 2009, vol. I, p. 71;

F. Berti, in Beyond the Medici. The Haukohl Family Collection, Milan 2018, pp. 122–27, nos 3a and 3b, reproduced in colour;

Apollo Magazine, April 2023 (Saint Dorothy reproduced in colour);

P.B. Kerber, ‘Francis Dashwood’s Paintings Collection at West Wycombe: the Tuscan Influence’, in Art and the Country House, essay 20 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.17658/ACH/WWE547.

London, Royal Academy and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 20 January – 18 February and 27 February – 28 March 1979, Painting in Florence 1600–1700, nos 12 and 13;

Augsburg, Schaezlerpalais, Im Schatten der Medici: Barocke Kunst Aus Florenz, The Haukohl Family Collection, 20 October – 20 January 2019;

Remagen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, In the Light of the Medici: Baroque Art of Italy, 10 February – 8 September 2019;

Braunschweig, Städtisches Museum, Im Licht der Medici: Kunst des Barock aus Florenz, The Haukohl Family Collection, 15 March – 27 September 2020;

Luxembourg, Musée National d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg, Im Schatten der – Barocke Kunst aus Florenz, 15 October 2020 – 14 February 2021;

Brussels, Bozar Centre for the Fine Arts, Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection, 25 April – 21 July 2023, nos 3a and 3b.