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Lot Essay
A study for the putto throwing flowers on Saint Hyacinth in The Madonna and Child with Saint Hyacinth, Saint Peter Martyr and Angels, datable 1594-5, in the Church of San Felice in Piazza in Florence, A. Marabottini, op. cit., no. 27, illustrated.
The picture was commissioned in 1594, the year of the canonization of Saint Hyacinth, and finished by September 1595 . The altarpiece was to be placed in the choir, but after work had begun it was decided to place it in the nave, hence a larger picture was needed. Empoli kept the first picture, and begun another one for 60 scudi. Later Empoli raised the price to 100 scudi. After a series of lawsuits the price was fixed at 80 scudi and Empoli delivered the picture, C. Fischer, Italian Drawings in the J.F. Willumsen Collection, exhib. cat., The J.F. Willumsen Museum, Frederiksund, II, 1988, p. 55. A drawing of the same putto, without the subsidiary studies, is in that Museum, C. Fischer, op. cit., no. 81, pl. 68. A drawing related to one of the angels in the picture is in the Uffizi (1797F).
The picture was commissioned in 1594, the year of the canonization of Saint Hyacinth, and finished by September 1595 . The altarpiece was to be placed in the choir, but after work had begun it was decided to place it in the nave, hence a larger picture was needed. Empoli kept the first picture, and begun another one for 60 scudi. Later Empoli raised the price to 100 scudi. After a series of lawsuits the price was fixed at 80 scudi and Empoli delivered the picture, C. Fischer, Italian Drawings in the J.F. Willumsen Collection, exhib. cat., The J.F. Willumsen Museum, Frederiksund, II, 1988, p. 55. A drawing of the same putto, without the subsidiary studies, is in that Museum, C. Fischer, op. cit., no. 81, pl. 68. A drawing related to one of the angels in the picture is in the Uffizi (1797F).