The Triumph of David

Details

Attributed to Lorenzo Lippi (Florence 1606-1665)
The Triumph of David
oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 41½ in. (88 x 105.6 cm.)

Provenance

Charles Loeser, Torri Gattaia, Florence; (+) Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1959, lot 27, as 'Lorenzo Lippi' (238 gns. to Wengraf).
with Paul Wengraf, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1960s.

Literature

A. Alterocca, La vita e l'opera poetica e pittorica di Lorenzo Lipp, Catania, 1914, p. 195, no. 2.
C. d'Afflitto, Lorenzo Lippi, Florence, 2002, p. 232, no. 60, illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Baldinucci and other contemporary sources only record two versions of The Triumph of David. The first version was that executed for Alessandro Passerini, together with Jacob at the Well (see C. d'Afflitto, op. cit., nos. 51-2; both now in the Galleria Palatina, Florence), which are dated to the early 1640s. The other recorded version was that painted by Lippi for Agnolo Galli in circa 1656 (ibid., no. 123; Private Collection, Florence). D'Afflitto suggests that the success of the Passerini version inspired further commissions: indeed another Jacob at the Well is recorded (ibid. no. 61; location and measurements now unknown) and it is possible that it was painted as a pair to the present lot, which she dates to the 1650s.

Charles Loeser's posthumous sale in 1959 also included the Gentile da Fabriano Saint Paul the Hermit (sold, Christie's, London, 22 April 1994, lot 55); the Jacopo del Casentino Dormition of the Virgin (offered, Sotheby's, 8 July 1992, lot 24); Salvator Rosa's Jason charming the Dragon now in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and a Penitent Magdalen by Crespi.

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