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DOMENICO ZAMPIERI, IL DOMENICHINO (BOLOGNA 1581-1641 NAPLES)
Christ at the Column
dated 'M.DCIII' (lower left)
oil on canvas
79 1⁄8 x 41 3⁄8 in. (201 x 105.1 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) John (Jan) Hope (1737-1784), Amsterdam.
Thomas Hope (1769-1831), Duchess Street, London and Deepdene, Surrey, and by descent to the following,
Henry Thomas Hope (1808-1862), and by inheritance to his wife,
Anne Adèle Hope (d. 1884), and by inheritance to her grandson,
Lord Francis Pelham-Clinton, later Lord Hope and 8th Duke of Newcastle (1866-1941), by whom sold in the following,
The Hope Heirlooms; Christie’s, London, 20 July 1917, lot 85 (7 gns. to Moore).
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, by 1966.
The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, acquired in 1985.
Literature
C.M. Westmacott, British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture Comprising a General Historical and Critical Catalogue, London, 1824, p. 227.
J. Weale, ed., London Exhibited in 1852, London, 1852, p. 411.
B. Nicolson, ‘Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions’, The Burlington Magazine, CVIII, no. 758, May 1966, p. 269.
M. Waddingham, ‘A 1603 Domenichino’, The Burlington Magazine, CVIII, no. 759, June 1966, pp. 308-11.
R.E. Spear, Domenichino, London, 1982, pp. 129-30, pl. 8.
D.S. Pepper, Guido Reni A complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text, Oxford, 1984, p. 215, under no. 16, fig. 23.
R.E. Spear, ‘Domenichino’s Study for “Christ at the Column”’, Master Drawings, XXXV, no. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 189-91.
Exhibited
London, Hazlitt Gallery, Italian and the Italianate, May 1966.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, The Age of Caravaggio, 5 February-30 June 1985, no. 36.
Warsaw, The Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum, 10 April-23 September 1990, no. 33.
Monaco, Musée de la Chapelle de la Visitation, Opus Sacrum. The Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, 1995.
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Domenichino 1581-1641, 10 October 1996-14 January 1997, no. 5.
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