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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 28, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Old Master Paintings Part I | 16 | $****** - ****** | Boy peeling a fruit |
paintings
65.4 x 52.9 cm (25.75 x 20.83 in)
oil on canvas
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1791)
(†), Christie’s, London, 14 March 1795, lot 93, as ‘Morillio’ (28 gns. to Green).Earl of Inchiquin, 1805.Marquise du Plessis-Bellières, 1897 (according to a label on the reverse).Anonymous sale [consigned through Stoner & Evans, 3 King Street]
Christie’s, London, 28 November 1927, lot 125 as ‘Le Nain’ (unsold).with Frank T. Sabin, London, by 1952. Dr. Pio Quadrani, Rome.John Lewis, M.P.
(†), Sotheby’s, London, 24 March 1976, lot 100, as M.A. da Caravaggio.with Silvano Lodi, Campione d’Italia.with Marlborough Fine Art, London, from whom acquired byThe Ishizuka Collection, Tokyo, from whom acquired by the present owner.
London, 28 Haymarket, 1791, as Murillo.London, Park House, 1952, pp. 6 f., fig.5.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Naples, at Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, The Age of Caravaggio, 5 February 1985 – 14 April 1985 and 12 May 1985 – 30 June 1985, no. 61, as Caravaggio (entry by M. Gregori).Saitama, Museum of Modern Art, Funabashi, Funabashi Seibu Museum of Art, Darumaya, Darumaya Seibu, and Shimonoseki, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Italian Still Life Painting from three centuries, The Silvano Lodi Collection, August 1986 – September 1986, September 1986 – October 1986, October 1986 – November 1986, January 1987 – February 1987, as Caravaggio.Bergamo, Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, Caravaggio: La luce nella pittura lombarda, April 2000 – July 2000, no. 8, as Caravaggio (entry by F. Rossi).London, Royal Academy of Arts and Rome, Palazzo Venezia, The Genius of Rome, 20 January 2001 – 16 April 2001 and May 2001 – August 2001, no. 1, as Caravaggio (entry by B.L. Brown).
(Possibly) G. Mancini, Discorso di pittura, Italy, 1620, I, p. 224.F.T. Sabin, Spring Exhibition, London, 1952, pp. 6 f., fig. 5, as Caravaggio. R. Hinks, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: His Life – His Legend – His Works, New York, 1953, p. 42 and 93, no. 1, pl. 1, as Caravaggio, possibly the original.W.F. Friedländer, Caravaggio Studies, Princeton, 1955, p. 145, as copy.K. Bauch, ‘Aus Caravaggios Umkreis’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorichen Institures in Florenz, 1956, p. 227-238, as Caravaggio.H. Wagner, Michelangeo da Caravaggio, Bern, 1958, p. 20, as Caravaggio.A. Berne Joffroy, Le Dossier Caravage, Paris, 1959, p. 360. (?) (dubious).A. Czobor, Caravaggio, Budapest, 1960, as copy.R. Julian, Le Caravage, Lyon, 1961, p. 47 and 53, as copy.R. Guttuso and A. Ottino della Chiesa, L’opera complete del Caravaggio, Milan, 1967, p. 85, no. 2, as copy.M. Kitson, The Complete Paintings of Caravaggio, London, 1969, no. 1, as Caravaggio datable to 1591.M. Cinotti and A.O. Dell’Acqua, Immagine del Caravaggio, 1973, p. 60, no. 2, as much better in quality than the other copies.H. Ro¨ttgen, Il Caravaggio-richerche e interpretazioni, Rome, 1974, p. 186 and 251, no. 126, as Caravaggio.B. Wind, “Genre as Season: Dosso, Campi, Caravaggio”, Arte lombarda, no. 42-43, p. 72, no. 4, as Caravaggio.A. Moir, Caravaggio and his copyists, New York, 1976, p. 104, no. 50c, as Caravaggio.B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque movement: lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford, 1979, p. 34, pl. 1, as the original Caravaggio, referencing the opinion of Sir Denis Mahon.R. Spear, “Review of The International Caravaggesque Movement by Benedict Nicolson.”Burlington Magazine, CXXI, May 1979, p. 318, working from photographs, as possibly the original Caravaggio.J. Gash, Caravaggio, London, 1980, p. 17 and 23, no. 4, as the original CaravaggioJ. Costello, “Caravaggio, Lizards, and Fruit” in Art, The Ape of Nature, New York, 1981, p. 375-385, as Caravaggio.M. Cinotti, Caravaggio: tutte le opere, Bergamo, 1983, p. 442, no. 20, as the best copy of lost original on panel.H. Hibbard, Caravaggio, New York, 1983, pp. 15-17, 269, as copy.M. Marini, “Equivoci del caravaggismo 2: (A) Appunti sulla tecnica del naturalismosecentesco, tra Caravaggio e ‘Manfrediana Methodus’; (B) Caravaggio e i suoi doppi;il problema delle possibili collaborazioni”, Artibus et historiae, I, 1983, p. 132-34. fig. 30 and 150-51, no. 55., as Spadarino.L. Salerno, “Caravaggio: A Reassessment”, Apollo, CX, 1984, p. 438-441, as the original Caravaggio.The Age of Caravaggio, exh. cat., New York, 1985, pp. 200-203, no. 61 (entry by M. Gregori), as Caravaggio.M. Marini, Caravaggio: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio "pictor praestantissimus", Rome, 1987, pp. 112-113, 358-361, as copy.L. Salerno, New Studies on Italian Still-Life Painting, Rome, 1989, p. 31, as Caravaggio.M. Calvesi, Le realtà del Caravaggio, Turin, 1990, pp. 8, 193, 234-236, no. 56, as copy of a lost original.E. Fumagalli, ‘Precoci citazioni di opere del Caravaggio in alcuni documenti inediti’, in M. Gregori, ed., Come dipingeva il Caravaggio : Atti della giornata di studio, Milan, 1996, pp. 143-150, as Caravaggio.S. Macioce, ed., Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. La vita e le opere attraverso i documenti. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi novembre 1995, Rome, 1996, p. 127 and 135, as Caravaggio.C. Puglisi, Caravaggio, London, 1998, pp. 58-59, 66, no. 1, pl. 25, as Caravaggio. M. Strinati & R. Vodret Adamo, Caravaggio: La Luce nella pittura lombarda, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Milan, 2000, p. 183-184, as the original Caravaggio.D.H. Bodart, ‘ L’exposition Caravaggio. La Luce nella pittura lombarda, à l’Accademia Carrara’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXLII, 2000, pp. 15-16, as Caravaggio.H. Langdon, ‘Bergamo: Caravaggio and Lombardy’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXII, 2000, p. 524, as Caravaggio.B.L. Brown, ed., The Genius of Rome : 1592-1623, exh. cat., London, 2001, pp. 21, 275 (entry by B.L. Brown), as Caravaggio. M. Stinati & R. Vodret Adamo, Caravaggio e il genio di Roma, Rome, 2001, p. 20-21 and 375, no. 1, as Caravaggio.J.T. Spike, Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, New York, 2010, no. 1, c.5, as copy.S. Ebert-Schifferer, Caravaggio: The Artist and His Work, Los Angeles, 2012, p. 44-46, fig. 17, as copy.
