Giovanni Battista Spinelli (died c. 1647)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

细节

Giovanni Battista Spinelli (died c. 1647)
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
29 3/8 x 23 1/8in.

来源

John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), or John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute (1744-1814), and by descent at Luton Park (1799 inventory, p. 27, as Schedoni; 1800 inventory, possibly [no. 25], in the Little Breakfast Room; 1822 inventory, [no. 271], in Lady Bute's Sitting Room), and elsewhere.

出版

Gentleman's Magazine, CXXXVII, 2, p. 6, no. 16, as Schedoni.
J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures lent for Exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 42.

展览

Bethnal Green, 1883, no. 42.
Glasgow, 1884.

拍品专文

Although formerly attributed to Bartolomeo Schedoni, the present picture is a characteristic work by the Neapolitan artist Spinelli, who is recorded by de Dominici as having been a pupil and collaborator of Massimo Stanzione in Naples. The darkly theatrical lighting and facial types found in the present work are tellingly reminiscent of Spinelli's canvas of Lot and his Daughters in the Pisani Collection in Naples, while the melodramatically outstretched arms of the Christ Child are paralleled by the tambourine-playing Israelite women in the Triumph of David in the Pitti Palace, Florence. Probably a relatively early work, the present picture may well have been executed in the 1630s.