Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

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The Property of a Private Collector

Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino

Noli Me Tangere

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December 9, 03:39 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Private Collector

Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino

Arpino 1568 - 1640 Rome

Noli Me Tangere


oil on pine panel, unframed, with an unidentified collector's red wax seal on the reverse

45 x 36.8 cm.; 17¾ x 14½ in.

Possibly sale, Rome, Finarte, 5 October 1993, lot 163;
On the art market, Emilia Romagna, May 1996;
Acquired by the mother of the present owner;
Thence by descent.
H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari d'Arpino, Rome 2002, p. 425, no. 187, partially reproduced (with incorrect dimensions and described as on canvas).

Röttgen saw only a partial photograph of this painting, which he nevertheless included in his catalogue raisonné, dating the work to circa 1621/22. This painting is the prototype for another version, attributed by Röttgen to Arpino's pupil, Bernardino Parasole, today in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.1


1 Inv. no. 765; see H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier d'Arpino, exh. cat., Rome 1973, pp. 134-35, no. 54, reproduced.