Lot 189: The Master of the Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Jean Ducamp? (active Rome, c. 1620-1640)

The Denial of Saint Peter
oil on canvas, unframed
37 1/8 x 50 1/2 in. (94.3 x 128.3 cm.)

We are grateful to Dr. Gianni Papi for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs. Dr. Papi named this anonymous master after the Incredulity of Saint Thomas in the Palazzo Valentini, Rome, and he has attributed more than twenty paintings to him, characterized by stylistic affinities with Cecco del Caravaggio as well as with Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Tournier and Nicolas Régnier. Papi has also tentatively proposed identifying this anonymous master with Jean Ducamp, a painter from Cambrai recorded in Rome from 1622 to 1637. For a complete discussion, see: G. Papi, Tournier e le sue relazioni con l'ambiente artistico romano, in Nicolas Tournier et la peinture cravagesque en Italie, en France et en Espagne, Papers from the Symposium, University of Toulouse - Le Mirail, 7-9 June 2001, pp. 103-14 and G. Papi, 'Ancora sugli anonimi caravaggeschi', Arte Cristiana, LXXXVIII, 801, Nov-Dec 2000, pp. 439-46.

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