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Lot 41: GIANLORENZO  BERNINI

Est: $400,000 USD - $600,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 31, 2013

Item Overview

Description

NAPLES  1598  -  1680  ROME
CHRIST  MOCKED
oil  on  canvas
57  7/8    by  39  1/8    in.;  147  by  99.5  cm.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Rome, Le Scuderie Quirinale, Velázquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano: Le Corti del Barocco, 13 February - 2 May 2004, no. III.43;
Rome, Palazzo Incontro, La Passione di Cristo, secondo Bernini, 3 April - 2 June 2007, no. 15;
Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Bernini Pittore, 19 October 2007 - 20 January 2008, no. 20.

Literature

F. Petrucci, "L'opera pittorica di Gian Lorenzo Bernini," in Bernini a Montecitorio: Ciclo di conferenze nel quarto centenario della nascita di Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Rome 2001, pp. 74, 76-81 and 88, reproduced fig. 23, 24, 29 and 33 (as attributed to Bernini);
M. Cardinali, M.B. De Ruggeri, C. Falcucci, "Tecnica esecutiva e materiale costitutivi del Cristo coronato di spine," in Bernini a Montecitorio: Ciclo di conferenze nel quarto centenario della nascità di Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Rome 2001, pp. 92-94, reproduced figs. 1-4;
C. Strinati, "L'Esercizio della Pittura," in Bernini e la pittura, 2003, pp. 97-98, reproduced fig. 12;
F. Petrucci, "I Dipinti del Bernini," in Bernini e la pittura, 2003, pp. 169-179, reproduced fig. 48-49;
A. Brejon de Lavergnée, Velázquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano: Le corti del barocco, exhibition catalogue, ed. F. Checa Cremandes, Milan 2004, pp. 77, 85-86 and 315, reproduced pp. 84 and 87, cat. no. III.43;
M. Mancini, "La corte pontificia e l'antico come modello artistico," in Velázquez, Bernini, Luca Giordano: Le corti del barocco, exhibition catalogue, ed. F. Checa Cremandes, Milan 2004, p. 291;
F. Petrucci, Bernini Pittore, dal disegno al 'maraviglioso composto,' Rome 2006, pp. 185-209, reproduced figs. 189-190, 198-199, 203, 209; p. 355, cat no. 39, reproduced p. 354;
C. Strinati, "La Passione di Cristo Secondo Bernini," in La passione di Cristo, Secondo Bernini, exhibition catalogue, Rome 2007, p. 2, reproduced p. 4, fig. 3;
F. Petrucci, La passione di Cristo, Secondo Bernini, exhibition catalogue, Rome 2007, pp. 74-75, reproduced p. 75;
T. Montanari, Bernini pittore, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2007, pp. 34-35, reproduced pp. 36-38, figs. 26-27 and 29; pp. 50, 52-53, 55, reproduced pp. 52 and 56, figs. 50 and 55; pp. 136-139, no. 20, reproduced p. 136, fig. 1 and p. 137; p. 152, cat. no. A13;
T. Montanari, Velàzquez e il Ritratto, Florence 2007, pp. 40-41, reproduced pp. 40 and 42, figs. 28 and 30;
X. Salomon, "Bernini Pittore: Exhibition Review," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CL, no. 1258, January 2008, pp. 56-58 (as a follower of Bernini);
S. Costa, Dans l’intimité d’ un collectionneur: Livio Odescalchi et le faste baroque, Paris 2009, p. 358, reproduced fig. XXVI-XXVII;
G.-J. Salvy, Cent énigmes de la peinture, Paris 2009, pp. 212-215, reproduced pp. 213-215.

Provenance

Private collection, France, at the end of the 1980s;
Private collection, England, by 2001 until 2009.

Auction Details

Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
January 31, 2013, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US