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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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