| Lia Brunori and Alessandro Cecchi, Carlo Portelli: pittore eccentrico fra Rosso Fiorentino e Vasari (Firenze: Giunti, 2015). |
| Lia Brunori and Alessandro Cecchi, Carlo Portelli: pittore eccentrico fra Rosso Fiorentino e Vasari (Firenze: Giunti, 2015). |
Panciatici Palace, Florence, possibly by the early 17th century; [1]
\nEmilie Grigsby, New York; [2]
\nEmilie Grigsby Auction, Eighth Session, January 25, 1912 Evening Sale, Anderson Auction Company, New York, Lot 1174. [3]
\nMr. and Mrs. W. G. Oakman, New York (?);
\nMrs. W. G. Oakman Auction, April 24, 1914, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York (?); [4]
\nGifted in 1914 by Harold Godwin to The Princeton University Art Museum. [5]
\nNOTES:
\n[1] See curatorial file for letter from Harold Godwin; The Anderson Galleries, Illustrated Catalogue of the Art and Literary Collections of Miss Emilie Grigsby of New York City, Part I – Objects of Art [...] On Exhibition in the Anderson Galleries and to be Sold by Unrestricted Public Auction During the Week Beginning January 22, 1912, New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912, Lot 1174, p. 182.
\n[2] Emilie Grigsby (ca. 1880-1964) was the mistress of industrialist and art collector Charles T. Yerkes (1837-1905), and became an avid art collector herself with Yerkes’ support. In 1912 when her collection was sold at auction, she also sold her mansion at 660 Park Avenue that Yerkes had built for her and moved to London. See https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/4803. For Yerkes, see https://research.frick.org/directory/detail/1159.
\n[3] The auction catalogue description of the painting states: \"Francesco dei Rossi (Called Salviati) 1510- 1563. 1174. Madonna and Child with St. John and an Angel. The fair-haired mother in a pink dress with her blue mantle across her knees is seated, the nude boy in her lap. Her head is seen in profile as she turns to an angel seen at her back. The Child turns away from her to take a reed cross from the young St. John at his side. Salviati who took his name from his patron Cardinal Salviati, was a friend of Vasari while both were pupils of Andrea del Sarto and later of Bandinelli. The frame is Italian carved wood of XVI Century. Bought from Prince Panciatici’s Palace in Florence where it was said to have hung for three hundred years. Canvas. Height, 50 inches; width, 37 1-2 inches.\" See The Anderson Galleries, Illustrated Catalogue of the Art and Literary Collections of Miss Emilie Grigsby of New York City, Part I – Objects of Art [...] On Exhibition in the Anderson Galleries and to be Sold by Unrestricted Public Auction During the Week Beginning January 22, 1912, New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912, p. 182. In the copy of the auction catalogue uploaded to the Internet Archive and digitized by The Getty Research Institute, the number \"100.\" is written in pencil to the left of the lot number, perhaps indicating the painting’s sale price. See https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal02ande/page/182/mode/2up.
[4] See curatorial file for letter from Harold Godwin, which notes \"W. G. Oakman sale.\" At this time an auction catalogue cannot be found, but there are published reports of an auction of the belongings of Mrs. W. G. Oakman (Eliza Conkling Oakman, 1856-1931, wife of financier Walter G. Oakman, 1845- 1922) sold at her home in New York City on April 24, 1914 through Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. Eliza Conkling Oakman was a noted art collector, but more research is needed to confirm this is the correct collection and auction. See American Art Annual XI, ed. Florence N. Levy (New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1914): 471, 473; https://www.nytimes.com/1914/04/24/archives/chinese-ginger-jars- 164-crowd-at-sale-of-mrs-wg-oakman-furnishings.html.
\n[5] Harold Godwin (1858-1931) was the brother-in-law of Allan Marquand (1853-1924).
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\n\n\tPortelli was a founding member of the Florentine Academy of Design, established in 1563, which elevated its members from craftspeople to peers of the literary and philosophical academies that flourished in Renaissance Florence. The painting’s compressed space, dramatic juxtapositions of color, distorted proportions, and twisting poses are hallmarks of Florentine painting of the time.\n
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