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Lot 50: Rosa BACIGALUPO CARREA - Les Amazones pleurant Penthésilée

Est: €30,000 EUR - €50,000 EURSold:
Artemisia AuctionsParis, FranceJune 24, 2013

Item Overview

Description

Rosa BACIGALUPO CARREA (Gênes c. 1794 - 1854)
Les Amazones pleurant Penthésilée
Toile. Signée en bas à gauche: Rosa Bacigalupo Car.a inv. e dip.

120,5 cm x 130 cm

Provenance :
- Probablement collection de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche-Este, Palazzo Doria Tursi, Gênes

Lavinia Fontana, Barbara Longhi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Marietta Robusti, Fede Galizia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani, Rosalba Carriera sont parmi les femmes peintres les plus connues de l'Italie des XVIème - XVIIIème siècle.
Peindre au féminin n'a pas toujours été évident, mais plusieurs parmi ces femmes ont su attirer l'admiration des princes et des rois de l'Europe du temps, en atteignant parfois le même niveau de notoriété que leurs collègues masculins.

Quant à Rosa Bacigalupo Carrea, elle reste, en grande partie, encore méconnue du grand public.
La cause de ce relatif anonymat ne tient pas tant à sa maîtrise technique qu'au nombre réduit de ses aeuvres actuellement connues et documentées.

Le tableau que nous présentons sert à lui seul à montrer combien cette artiste de Gênes peut être rattachée aux plus grands noms de l'art italien du début de l'Ottocento.

Née dans une famille d'artistes, elle découvre la peinture dans l'atelier de son père Giuseppe, védutiste connu et réputé.
Mais ce qui l'attire plutôt, c'est le portrait et la mythologie.
A ce sujet, en 1865, son biographe Federigo Alizeri rappelle qu'elle exécuta un portrait du roi de Sardaigne, Vittorio Emanuele I, qui fut salué par la critique mais dont nous déplorons la disparition depuis la dernière Guerre mondiale.
Le même biographe raconte que Rosa Bacigalupo réalisa quatorze toiles pour le Palazzo Doria Tursi à Gênes, où vivait la reine Marie-Thérèse d'Habsbourg Este, épouse de Vittorio Emanuele I.
Ces toiles, dont la grande qualité est louée par Alizeri, ont étés dispersées en 1832 et actuellement, nous ne connaissons ni leurs sujet ni l'endroit où elles se trouvent.

Stefano Grandesso n'exclut pas que la composition mythologique que nous présentons puisse venir des appartements de la reine de Sardaigne. Hypothèse qui se fonde sur le haut niveau qualitatif de ces Amazones pleurant Penthesilée et sur la datation qui remonte aux années 1820.
Le peintre signe, en effet, en ajoutant le nom de famille de son premier mari, le sculpteur Bartolomeo Carrea, dont Rosa Bacigalupo était encore mariée à l'époque.

La composition rassemble quatre figures féminines et un cheval, qui occupent presque la totalité du tableau, comme le haut-relief d'une métope.
Les amazones pleurent leur reine morte.
Fille d'Arès et d'Otréré, Penthésilée participe au siège de Troie, rapportent Hellanicos et Lysias, qui voient en elle l'incarnation de la fureur guerrière.
Succombant à ses blessures devant Achille, dont les traditions historiques rapportent qu'il en était tombé amoureux, la mythologie lui attribue un fils, Caÿstros.

Rosa Bacigalupo joue cette scène de manière tragique : les visages ne se regardent pas, les poses sont désolées, les amazones se languissent de douleur.
On voit bien que l'artiste avait en mémoire tout ce que le maniérisme lombard a créé de corps torturés et de complexité iconographique.
Si l'on ajoute à cela un raffinement dans le colorismo et un dessin très précis, cette composition est encore plus originale.
Une vision de séduction qui contribue à mieux comprendre un moment-clé de l'art en Ligurie entre néoclassicisme et romantisme.

Nous remercions Monsieur Stefano Grandesso pour avoir confirmé l'attribution de ce tableau.

Artist or Maker

Payment & Shipping

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Shipping

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Export
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Passport
A passport of "cultural goods" is delivered by the French Reunion des Musees Nationaux. The definition of "cultural goods" and the threshold above which a licence is compulsory may differ according to EU regulation or French law.

Auction Details

Dessins et tableaux anciens: Deux collections italiennes

by
Artemisia Auctions
June 24, 2013, 02:30 PM CET

Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 75009, FR

Terms

Buyer's Premium

26.0%

Bidding Increments

From:To:Increment:
€0€99€10
€100€399€20
€400€999€50
€1,000€1,999€100
€2,000€4,999€200
€5,000€9,999€500
€10,000€19,999€500
€20,000€49,999€1,000
€50,000€99,999€2,000
€100,000+€5,000

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Live Auction : an additional buyer's premium of 3% will be charged by Artemisia Auctions to this buyer's premium

BEFORE THE SALE

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A buyer's premium will be added to the hammer price and is part of the purchase price. The buyer's premium (excluding tax) is 23%. VAT will be applied on this buyer's premium at the applicable rate.
Live Auction : an additional buyer's premium of 3% will be charged by Artemisia Auctions to this buyer's premium

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VAT refund
VAT charged on buyer's premium may be refunded to non EU resident buyers who are exporting items outside the EU. They should contact the accounting service by the end of the sale and then provide the custom export document n°3 within six weeks after the date of the sale (the export must be effective within two months after the sale for valid custom papers).

Export
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Payment

As soon as the hammer falls, each lot is under the responsibility of its buyer.

Payment
Payment is in Euros and buyers are expected to pay for purchases immediately after the sale.
Payments may be made:
by French checks (showing an ID card)
by Visa card or Mastercard
by bank transfer
by cash up to 3000 € (commissions & tax included) for French residents, private and professionals
by cash up to 15 000 € (commissions & tax included) for non French residents

French checks have to be made at the account of ARTEMISIA AUCTIONS. No foreign checks will be accepted.
Bank transfer s should be made to:

Artemisia Auctions Dépôt Client
BNPPARIBAS PARIS A CENTRALE -
1, boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris, France
IBAN : FR76 3000 4008 2800 0107 1933 276
BIC : BNPAFRPPPAC

Bank commissions and expenses have to be paid by the buyer; and the order must mention the buyer's name and the date of the sale.

Lots cannot be withdrawn until the complete payment of the invoice.

Contract

All property is being offered under French Law and under the conditions printed in this catalogue. Anyone who makes a bid agrees these terms and conditions.

Live Auction : an additional buyer's premium of 3% will be charged by Artemisia Auctions to this buyer's premium

The auctioneer is entitled to conduct the sale the way he thinks most appropriate. He has the right to take or refuse any bid, to join or separate one or several lots, to change an estimate, to withdraw a lot from the sale, to start again taking bids on a lot if there is a dispute.

Payment

Payment is in Euros and buyers are expected to pay for purchases immediately after the sale.
Payments may be made:
by French checks (showing an ID card)
by Visa card or Mastercard
by bank transfer
by cash up to 3000 € (commissions & tax included) for French residents, private and professionals
by cash up to 15 000 € (commissions & tax included) for non French residents

French checks have to be made at the account of ARTEMISIA AUCTIONS. No foreign checks will be accepted.
Bank transfer s should be made to:

Artemisia Auctions Dépôt Client
BNPPARIBAS PARIS A CENTRALE -
1, boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris, France
IBAN : FR76 3000 4008 2800 0107 1933 276
BIC : BNPAFRPPPAC

Bank commissions and expenses have to be paid by the buyer; and the order must mention the buyer's name and the date of the sale.

Lots cannot be withdrawn until the complete payment of the invoice.

Export & shipping

As soon as the hammer falls, each lot is under the responsibility of its buyer.

Lots cannot be withdrawn until the complete payment of the invoice.


Export
Specific licences may be compulsory to export items out of France and European Union and to import into other countries. It is the buyer's responsibility to obtain the relevant licences, and there will be no delay of payment or cancellation of the sale accepted.

Passport
A passport of "cultural goods" is delivered by the French Reunion des Musees Nationaux. The definition of "cultural goods" and the threshold above which a licence is compulsory may differ according to EU regulation or French law.

Buyer's premium

A buyer's premium will be added to the hammer price and is part of the purchase price. The buyer's premium (excluding tax) is 23%. VAT will be applied on this buyer's premium at the applicable rate.
Live Auction : an additional buyer's premium of 3% will be charged by Artemisia Auctions to this buyer's premium

VAT

VAT
VAT is 5,5% for books and manuscripts, and 19,6 % for all other kind of items. In general, auctions are conducted under the margin scheme. VAT on the margin and on the buyer's premium will not appear on invoices. In the case of properties sold outside the margin scheme, applicable VAT will be charged on both hammer price and buyer's premium.

VAT refund
VAT charged on buyer's premium may be refunded to non EU resident buyers who are exporting items outside the EU. They should contact the accounting service by the end of the sale and then provide the custom export document n°3 within six weeks after the date of the sale (the export must be effective within two months after the sale for valid custom papers).

Condition of lots

Each lot is offered in its condition at the moment of the sale. Details mentioned in the catalogue such as minor restorations or small damages, and approximate dimensions are given for reference only. Interested buyers should make their own assessment during the public exhibition prior to the sale. In the case of a buyer who cannot come to the viewing, we may provide a condition report. In any case, no claim will be accepted.