Lot 4: Benvenuto Tisi, called il Garofalo , Ferrara 1481 - 1559 The Circumcision oil on panel, unfinished

oil on panel, unfinished

measurements note 15 by 21 in.; 38.1 by 53.3 cm.

B. Berenson, The North Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, New York-London 1907, p. 224;
M.J. Friedlander, Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufman, Berlin 1917, vol. I, pp. 73-74, no. 35;
B. Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 187;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. I, London 1968, pp. 152 and 154;
F. Zeri, Italian Paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, vol. II, Baltimore 1976, p. 370, as "a copy made in the painter's workshop";
A.M. Fioravanti Baraldi, Il Garofalo, Benevenuto Tisi, Pittore (c. 1476 - 1559), Rimini 1993, pp. 146, cat. no. 78, p. 147, illustrated.

Dan Fellows Platt Collection, Englewood, New Jersey;
With E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York;
By whom sold (under the heading "Early Italian and Spanish Works Formerly in the Collection of Dan Fellows Platt"), New York, Parke-Bernet, February 15, 1940, lot 21;
A. Reasenberger & Son, New York.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The present unfinished picture is one of several versions of The Circumcision by Garofalo. The prime version, now in the Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 692), was executed by the artist in 1519 for the central portion of the predella of an altarpiece depicting The Massacre of the Innocents, in the Church of San Francesco in Ferrara. In addition to the Louvre picture, two other autograph versions of The Circumcision by Garofalo are extant. One is in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (inv. 37.1077); the other is in a private collection, New York.