Details
GIACINTO GIMIGNANI (PISTOIA 1606-1681 ROME)
Persée accueille Cerphée et Cassiopée avant de sauver leur fille Andromède du monstre marin
avec inscription ‘...yens’ (en bas à gauche)
plume et encre brune, lavis brun rehaussé de blanc, mis au carreau à la pierre noire, sur papier chamois
21,7 x 30,5 cm (8 3/4 x 12 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris.
Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne ; sa vente, Sotheby’s, Londres, 5 juillet 2013, lot 294.
Collectionneur anonyme (marque ‘FB’ avec feuille de ginkgo biloba, pas dans Lugt) (sur le montage).
Literature
W. Vitzthum, ‘Publications Received. Review of: Old Master Drawings. Exhibition catalogue by Ralph Holland, I964 (Hatton Gallery, University of New- castle upon Tyne)’, Master Drawings, III, n° 2, 1965, p. 177, fig. 2.
G. Cortese, ‘Percorso di Giacinto Geminiani’, Commentari, n° 18, 1967, p. 192.
U.V. Fischer Pace, Giacinto Gimignani. Eine Studie zur romischen Malerei des Seicenton, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Freiburg, 1973, n° Z68.
Andromède, ou, le héros à l’épreuve de la beauté. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par l’université de Montréal et le Service culturel du musée du Louvre les 3 et 4 février 1995, Paris, 1996 (détail du dessin, la figure d’Andromède reproduite sur la couverture arrière).
J.M. Merz, Pietro da Cortona und sein Kreis, Munich, 2005, p. 118 ; p. 164, sous n° 47.
Exhibited
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian and other drawings: 1500-1800, 1960, n° 38 (comme École Romaine).
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Old Master Drawings, 1964, n° 73 (comme École Romaine, peut-être Romanelli).
Edinburgh, The Merchants’ Hall, Italian 17th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1972, n° 60, ill.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian and other drawings: 1500-1800, 1974, n° 68, ill.
Londres, Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, 1975, n° 46.
Lisbonne, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, European Master Drawings from Portuguese Collections II. Italy and Portugal, 2021, n° 51 (catalogue par N. Turner).
Further details
GIACINTO GIMIGNANI, PERSEUS GREETS CEPHEUS AND CASSIOPEA BEFORE RESCUING THEIR DAUGHTER ANDROMEDA FROM THE SEA MONSTER, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, SQUARED IN BLACK CHALK
This drawing is characteristic of Gimignani’s graphic style. The scene represents the arrival of Perseus in the Kingdom of Ethiopia where he will free the beautiful Andromeda. Here Perseus is depicted with King Cepheus of Ethiopia and his wife Queen Cassiopeia, Andromeda’s parents, greeting him. Walter Virtzthum made the attribution in 1965 and compared the sheet with an album of drawings by Gimignani in the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome (op. cit.).
Although no painting by Gimignani of this subject exists, Jörg Martin Mertz has proposed to connect the drawing with the record of a payment in 1638 of 50 scudi to Gimignani from Giovanmaria Roscioli, cupbearer of Urban VIII, for a ‘favola di Andromeda’ (op. cit., p. 118).
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