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Lot 4: Bernardino Orsi (Reggio c. 1450-c. 1532)

Est: £0 GBP - £0 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 02, 2013

Item Overview

Description

Bernardino Orsi (Reggio c. 1450-c. 1532) Jason and the Golden Fleece with the coat-of-arms of the Guidotti family (lower right) tempera on panel, laid down on board 18 x 21 in. (45.7 x 53.2 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Literature

G. Cecchini, Indice ragionato della collezione d'antichi dipinti del fu nobile Carlo de Roner D'Ehrenwerth, Venice, 1847, no. 46, as Stefano da Ferrara (the catalogue entry attached to the reverse). F. Zeri, 'Appunti per Ercole de' Roberti', Bollettino d'Arte, L, 1965, pp. 74-6, as Ercole de' Roberti and studio. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian School, London, 1968, I, p. 121, as Studio of Ercole de' Roberti. P. Venturoli, 'Lorenzo Costa', Storia dell'Arte, 1969, p. 163. P. Tosetti Grandi, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, XXX, Rome, 1984, p. 212, as Ercole de' Roberti and studio. P. Tosetti Grandi, 'Lorenzo Costa miniatore', La miniatura italiana tra Gotico e Rinascimento, Atti del II Congresso di Storia della Miniatura Italiana, I, Florence, 1985, p. 329, no. 1. M.G. Diana, 'Alcune precisazioni per il percorso giovanile di Lorenzo Costa', Paragone, XXXVII, no. 431-3, 1986, pp. 47-8, as the young Lorenzo Costa. J. Manca, The Life and Art of Ercole de' Roberti, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1986, pp. 355-6. C. Turril, Ercole de' Roberti's Altarpieces for the Lateran Canons, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1986, p. 333. P. Tosetti Grandi, 'Favole tolte da Ovidio e da altri poeti: per tre coppie di cassoni nuziali bolognesi', Bolletino del Museo Civico di Padova, LXXIX, 1990, pp. 240ff., fig. 9. P. Tosetti Grandi, in A. Ballarin and D. Banzato, eds., Da Bellini a Tintoretto, exhibition catalogue, Padua, Musei Civici di Padova, 1991, pp. 75-7, under no. 11, as Ercole de' Roberti. J. Manca, The Art of Ercole de' Roberti, Cambridge, Massachussetts, pp. 184-5, as by an Emilian, probably Ferrarese artist. S. Campbell, 'Recensione a J. Manca. The Art of Ercole de' Roberti', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXV, 1993, p. 767, as 'connected with Roberti or with subordinate artists emulating his style'. G. Pavanello, 'Sulla collezione di Antonio Canova: i cassoni degli Argonauti di Ercole da Ferrara', Bolletino del Museo Civico di Padova, LXXXII, 1993, p. 266. A. Bacchi and A. de Marchi, Francesco Marmitta, Turin, 1995, p. 18, fig. 30, as 'Bernardino Orsi da Collecchio (?)'. M. Molteni, Ercole de' Roberti, Milan, 1995, p. 172, no. 35, as Lorenzo Costa. R. Bentivoglio, in Saur Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, XXI, Munich and Leipzig, 1999, p. 439. E. Negro and N. Rosio, Lorenzo Costa, 1460-1535, Modena, 2001, pp. 141-2, no. 78.A.f, illustrated.

Provenance

Painted for a member of the Guidotti family, Bologna, possibly for the marriage of Sallustio Guidotti to Griseida, natural daughter of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, in 1486. Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564-1637), Palazzo Guistiniani, S. Luigi dei Francese, Rome; his posthumous inventory, 9 February 1638: 'Stanza Grande de Quadri Antichi', nos. 97-8, 'Due quadri in tavola sopraporti con l'historia de gli Argonauti divisi con colonne dipinte con prospettive larg. pal. 7 alt. pal. 2 in circa di mano si credi di Ercole da Ferrara con loro cornici nere' (L. Salerno, 'The Picture Gallery of Vincenzo Giustiniani - III: The Inventory, Part II', The Burlington Magazine, CII, April 1960, p. 141), from whom acquired in 1803 by Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Carlo de Roner d'Ehrenwerth. Purchased in Venice by Sir George Houston-Boswall, 2nd Bt. (1809-1886), Blackadder, Berwickshire, and by inheritance to the vendor.

Auction Details

Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale

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Christie's
July 02, 2013, 12:00 AM GMT

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK