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    Portrait of a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Martin de Redin
    Mattia Preti. Portrait of a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Martin de Redin, c. 1660. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000900

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    Portrait of a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Martin de Redin

    by Mattia Preti

    Provenance

    Recorded in the collection of Caracciolo di Avellino, Naples, by 1801 [inventory1801; Spike 1999, p. 125]; Marino Francesco Caracciolo di Avellino, Palazzo Maddaloni, Naples [inventory 1844, no. 68; Spike 1999, p. 125]. Gaetano Sersale, Naples, by 1938. E. V. Thaw, Co., New York; purchased by Mrs. Sterling Morton, Chicago, by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 1968.

    Exhibition history

    Naples, Castello Nuovo, Mostra della Pittura Napoletana dei secoli XVII–XVII-XIX, 1938, no. 24.

    Publications

    D. Ferrante, “La Quadreria dei Principi di Avellino” in Napoli nobilissima XI, 1902, pp. 158–60, 173–75. S. Mitidieri, “Mattia Preti detto I Cavalier Calabrese” in L’Arte 16 (1913), p. 446. C. Malpica, “Ricreazioni artistiche” in Poliorama Pittoresco II, 1937–1938, pp. 337–41. A. Frangipane, “Della musica napoletana dei tre secoli di pittura (secoli XVII-XIX)” in Brutium XVII, 1938, p. 35. Raffaello Causa, “Un nuovo libro su Gasper van Wittel ed alcuni suoi inediti,” Napoli noblissima, 5, (1966), p. 175. Raffaello Causa, “I seguaci, del Caravaggio a Napoli (I maestri del colore), Milan, 1966, p. 175. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1968–69, pp. 14, 16 (ill.). Walter Vitztham, “L’ordine di San Giovanni a Malta,” Arte Illustrata, no. 30–33 (1970), pp. 28, 130 ill.. Francesco Raffaele, “Un dipinto inedito di Mattia Preti” in Archivio Storico per le Province Napoletane, (1971), pp. 377–80, ill. John Spike, “Mattia Preti’s Passage to Malta,” Burlington Magazine, 120 (1978), pp. 506–07, fig. 16. Nicola Spinosa, La pittura napoletana del ‘600, Milan, 1987, fig. 581. John T. Spike, Mattia Preti. Catalogo ragionato dei dipinti, Taverna, Florence, 1999, pp. 125–26, no. 21, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613–1699)
    Date
    c. 1660
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    92.1 × 73.3 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 116.9 × 98.2 × 8.9 cm (46 × 38 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Sophia P. Morton Fund
    Accession no.
    1968.615

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