Lot 294: GIACINTO GIMIGNANI

PISTOIA 1606 - 1681 ROME PERSEUS GREETS CEPHEUS AND CASSIOPEA BEFORE RESCUING THEIR DAUGHTER ANDROMEDA FROM THE SEA MONSTER Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on buff paper; squared in black chalk; bears attribution: mytens and numbered: 111 217 by 303 mm

Newcastle, 1960, no. 38 (as Roman School); Newcastle, 1964, no. 73 (as Roman School, possibly Romanelli); Edinburgh, The Merchants' Hall, Italian 17th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1972, no. 60, reproduced p. 89; Newcastle, 1974, no. 68, reproduced pl. XX; London, 1975, no. 46

Vitzthum, 1965, p. 177, reproduced p. 176, fig. 2; U.V. Price, Giacinto Gimignani (1606-1681). Eine Studie zur römischen Malerei des Seicento, Ph.D. thesis, University of Freiburg, 1973, p. 218, no. Z68; Andromède ou le héros à l'épreuve de la beauté: actes du colloque international...1995, Paris 1996 (a detail, the figure of Andromeda, reproduced on the back cover); J.M. Merz, Pietro da Cortona und sein Kreis, Berlin 2005, p. 118; p. 164, under Kat. 47

With Paul Prouté, Paris, from whom purchased, circa 1958

The attribution to Gimignani was made by Walter Vitzthum, who compared it with an album of Gimignani drawings in the Farnesina, Rome. There seems to be no known surviving painting, although Merz (op. cit., p. 118) records that Giovanmaria Roscioli paid 50 scudi in March 1638 for a 'favola di Andromeda' by Gimignani.