Lot 568: CARLO AMALFI | Portrait of an architect, half-length, in a red coat and white stock, holding a compass, standing before a column

oil on canvas

100.8 by 77.3 cm.; 39 5/8  by 30 3/8  in.

oil on canvas

San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Baroque Painting, 1941, no. 103, as Solimena.

Art Institute Fifth Anniversary of the Opening Catalogue, Zanesville 1940, under 'Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection', cat. no. 4 (as Solimena);
Art News, October 12 1940, reproduced on the cover;
T.C. Howe, Jr., Italian Baroque Painting, exhibition catalogue, 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).

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, where acquired by the present owner.