Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546)

The Nativity

Details

Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546)
The Nativity
oil on panel
15¼ x 10.3/8in. (38.3 x 26.5cm.)

Provenance

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey (1585-1646) and
By descent to his grandson John Paul Stafford-Howard, 4th Earl of Stafford.
Thomas Stadler (the inscription on an old label on the reverse reads 'Bought at the Earl of Staffords, out of the Arundell Collection - (signed) Tho sadler'; no copy of the catalogue of the Stafford sale of 1720 is known to survive).
Probably in the Thomas Sadler sale, 4 April 1757, lot 96, as 'A Holy Family by J. Romano' (4 gns).
Mr. Charles Gray; Christie's, New York, 22 March 1978, lot 147.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 19 April 1985, lot 40.

Lot Essay

At the time of the 1985 sale, the present lot was sold with a photostat certificate of September 1975 from Frederick Hartt, who dated the present lot to the early or mid-1530s and suggested a possible identification with a Nativity, one cubit high, painted, according to Vasari, for the Duke of Mantua and later given to Isabella Boschetta (see F. Hartt, Giulio Romano, 1958, I, pp. 275-6).

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