LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.76 in. (101.00 cm.) (height) by 54.33 in. (138.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'ELISAB.A SIRANI F. 1664', l.l.; dated l.l.

Exhibited:

Paris, L'Oeil Galerie d'Art, Tableaux italiens: XIVe-XVII siècle, June-July, 1973, no. 9; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Texas, University Art Museum; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Women Artists: 1550-1950, December 21, 1976 - November 27, 1977, no. 31; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, exhibited 1990-96; Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, Elisabetta Sirani: pittrice eroina, 1638-1665, December 4, 2004-February 27, 2005, no. 67; Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, March 16 - July 15, 2007, no. 65.

Literature:

C.C. Malvasia, Felsina pittrice: Vite de' pittori bolognesi, 1678, Ed. Giampietro Zanotti et al, Bologna 1841, vol. II, p. 399; C.C. Malvasia, Vite de' pittori bolognesi: Appunti inediti, A. Arfelli, ed., Bologna 1961, p. 95, note 28; A. Manaresi, Elisabetta Sirani, Bologna 1898, p. 129; P. della Pergola, Galeria Borghese: I Dipinti, Rome 1955, vol. I, pp. 68-69 (under no. 121); A.S. Harris & L. Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 1976, pp. 148, 150, cat. no. 31, reproduced p. 77; J. Butterfield, "Replacing Women Artists in History," in Art News, vol. LXXVII, no. 3, March 1977, p. 43; M. Wortz, "Women Artists, 1550-1950: A New History," in Arts Magazine, vol. LI, no. 7, March 1977, p. 101; F. Frisoni, "La vera Sirani," in Paragone, no. 335, 1978, pp. 12,13,18, note 31, reproduced figure 25; N. Heller, Women Artists, An Illustrated History, New York 1987, reproduced, p. 34, reproduced p. 33, no. 17 F. Frisoni, "Elisabetta Sirani", in E. Negro & M. Pirondini, La Scuola di Guido Reni, Modena 1992, pp. 345-347, 349, reproduced figure 333; W. Chadwick, Women, Art and Society, London 1996, pp. 101-103; A. Modesti, "Elisabetta Sirani", in D. Gaze, Dictionary of women artists, 1997, vol II, p. 1278; R. Morselli, Collezionisti e quadrerie nella Bologna del Seicento, Los Angeles 1998, pp. 418, 420, no. 49, reproduced figure 75; B. Bohn, "The Antique Heroines of Elisabetta Sirani", in Renaissance Studies, 2002, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 66-70,...

Provenance:

Simone Tassi, Bologna, by whom commissioned from the artist in 1664 (see note), from whose Estate acquired in 1675 by; Ludovico Foschi, Bolgona, until his death in 1696; Bonfiglioli collection, Bologna (from an old handwritten label on the reverse); With Wildenstein, New York; Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, December 11, 1984, lot 80; With Spencer A. Samuels Gallery, New York; From whom acquired by the present owners in 1988.