Lot 30: ORAZIO  BORGIANNI

THE  PROPERTY  OF  A  LADY
ROME  1574  -  1616
CHRIST  AMONGST  THE  DOCTORS
oil  on  canvas
78.2  by  104.6  cm.;  30  3/4    by  41  1/4    in.

Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Caravaggio and His Followers, 1971, no. 6;
Mantua, Palazzo Te, Domenico Fetti 1588/89-1623, 15 September - 15 December 1996, no. 7;
Milan, Palazzo Reale, & Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, Caravaggio e l'Europa: Il movimento caravaggesco internazionale da Caravaggio a Mattia Preti, 15 October 2005 - 6 February 2006 & 5 March - 9 July 2006, no II.12.

F. Zeri, "Orazio Borgianni: un'osservazione e un dipinto inedito", in Paragone, vol. 83, November 1956, pp. 49-53, reproduced fig. 30 and details figs. 31 and 32 (as Orazio Borgianni, and as in a New York private collection);
L. Cannizzaro, "Un pittore del primo Seicento: Orazio Borgianni", in Studi Salentini, Lecce 1962, vol. XIII, p. 31;
H.E. Wethey, "Orazio Borgianni in Italy and in Spain", in The Burlington Magazine, April 1964, vol. CVI, number 733, p. 154, footnote 42, reproduced p. 156, fig. 17;
A. Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio, Cambridge (Mass.) 1967, vol. I, p. 48, reproduced vol. II, fig. 53;
R. Spear, Caravaggio and His Followers, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971 (and revised 1975 ed.), p. 52, cat. no. 6, reproduced on p. 53;
G. Papi, "Orazio Borgianni', in M. Gregori & E. Schleier eds., La pittura in Italia. Il Seicento, vol. II, Milan 1988, p. 648;
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Turin 1990, vol. I, p. 67, reproduced vol. II, fig. 113;
Probably G. Labrot, Collections of Paintings in Naples 1600-1780, The Provenance Index of the Getty Art History Information Program, London, New York, & Paris, 1992, p. 56, no. 9 ("La disputa de Cristo con los doctores, quadro mediano del detto Borgian original") or no. 10 ("Un Cristo mediano que sta en acto de disputar original del dicho Borgiano");
M. Gallo, "Orazio Borgianni, l'Accademia di S. Luca e l'Accademia degli Humoristi: documenti e nuove datazioni", in Storia dell'Arte, vol. LXXVI, 1992, p. 315;
G. Papi, Orazio Borgianni, Soncino 1993, pp. 117-118, cat. no. 28, reproduced in colour with details on pp. 64-66, plates XXXIV-XXXVI;
G. Papi, Antiveduto Gramatica, Soncino 1995, p. 225, fig. 106;
A.E. Pérez Sánchez, "Orazio Borgianni", in J. Turner ed., The Dictionary of Art, vol. 4, London 1996, p. 412;
E.A. Safarik, in Domenico Fetti 1588/89-1623, exhibition catalogue, Mantua, Palazzo Te, 15 September - 15 December 1996, p. 82, cat. no. 7, reproduced in colour;
M. Gallo, Orazio Borgianni pittore romano (1574-1616) e Francisco de Castro, conte di Castro, Rome 1997, pp. 98 and 116-117;
A. Vannugli, "Orazio Borgianni, Juan de Lezcano and a 'Martyrdom of St. Lawrence' at Roncesvalles", in The Burlington Magazine, January 1998, vol. CXL, no. 1138, p. 8;
G. Papi, "Lanfranco verso Borgianni", in Paragone, Anno LIV, no. 50 (641), July 2003, pp. 18 and 20-21, footnote 11, reproduced plate 24;
B. Granata, in Caravaggio e l'Europa: Il movimento caravaggesco internazionale da Caravaggio a Mattia Preti, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 15 October 2005 - 6 February 2006; & Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, 5 March - 9 July 2006, p. 202, cat. no II.12, reproduced in colour on p. 203;
A. Vannugli, La collezione del segretario Juan de Lezcano, Rome 2009, pp. 403-7;
M. Gallo, in A. Zuccari ed., I Caravaggeschi: Percorsi e protagonisti, Milan 2010, p. 341, reproduced in colour on p. 340, fig. 5, and a detail on p. 334;
M. Gallo, "Il testamento e la morte di Orazio Borgianni", forthcoming article, 2012.

Almost certainly commissioned by the Spanish diplomat Juan de Lezcano after his move to Rome in 1609 and remained in his collection until his death in Naples in 1631. Two paintings of this subject are cited in his inventory, dated 22 January 1631, as no. 9 ("La disputa de Cristo con los doctores, quadro mediano del detto Borgian original") and no. 10 ("Un Cristo mediano que sta en acto de disputar original del dicho Borgiano");
Private collection, New York, 1956;
Julius Weitzner, New York & London;
From whom acquired by the present owner in the mid-1960s.