Lot 113: VINCENZO DANDINI FLORENCE 1609 - 1675

THE PROPERTY OF ROBILANT + VOENA

DIANA

DIANA

measurements note
29 7/8 by 24 1/4 in.; 76 by 61.5 cm.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Private collection, U.S.A., from whom purchased by Robilant + Voena.

LITERATURE

S. Bellesi, Tendenze e Orientamenti Naturalistici nella Pittura Fiorentina del Prima Metà del Seicento "Luce e Ombra. Caravaggismo e Naturalismo nella pittura Toscana del Seicento," Pontedera - Pisa 2005, pp. 41-73, p. 58 ff., under no. 32, reproduced.

NOTE

This recently rediscovered picture is a quarter-length portrait of the goddess Diana by Vincenzo Dandini, the brother of the painter Cesare Dandini. Bellesi dates it to circa 1630-1635 (see Literature), and compares it to Dandini's Portrait of Bettona (see S. Bellesi, Vincenzo Dandini, Pisa 2003, p. 78, cat. no. 5, reproduced p. 79). Dandini worked on a large number of Medici commissions for mythological themes in various media, such as the fresco depicting the Adoration of Niobe, and Venus, Mercury and Cupid, now in the Uffizi, Florence. These commissions may have sparked the artist's interest in such depiction of ancient deities.