PIETRO MARESCALCHI, called LO SPADA* (1520/22-1589)

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PIETRO MARESCALCHI, called LO SPADA* (1520/22-1589)

The Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by Saints Prosdocimus and James the Great, with an musican Angel in prayer, in an architectural setting

inscribed, signed and dated ' ' --oil on canvas
64 x 49in. (162.6 x 124.5cm.)
Provenance
possibly G.A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck, M.P.; sale, Christie's, London, July 13, 1891, lot 742, as P. de Mari (bt. Davis)
possibly his daughter, Mrs. Walter Burns, and by descent to
Lady Carew Pole
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, May 13, 1949, lot 155 (# to Frankel)
with Frederick Mont, New York
Walter P. Chrysler, New York, from 1957 until purchased by the museum in 1969
Literature
G. Fiocco, Un Pietro de Marescalchi in Inghilterra e uno in Svizzera, Arte Veneta, 3, 1949, pp. 161 and 162, fig. 166
G. Fiocco, Del'Greco' Veneziano e di un suo ritratto di Ottavio Farnese, Arte Veneta, 5, 1951, p. 120
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, 1957, I, p. 111; II, pl. 1236
B. Frederickson, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1972, p. 34, no. 35
B. Fredericksen, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1975, p. 89, illustrated V. Scarbi, in the catalogue of the exhibition, The Genuis of Venice, 1500-1600, The Royal Academy of Arts, Londoon, 1983-84, p. 183
S. Claut, Regesto Marascalchi, Archivio Storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, 55, no. 246-247, Jan.-June 1984, pp. 2 and 6, no. 10 .
S. Claut, Altre Indagini su Pietro Marascalchi, Archivio Storico di Belluno, Feltre e Cadore, anno 59, no. 262, Jan.-Mar 1988, pp. 9 and 12,n. 23, illustrated
La Pittura in Italia: Il Cinquecento, 2, 1988, 1st ed., 1987, ed. Mauro Natale, p. 761 (entry by Mauro Lucco)
Exhibited
Fort Worth, Fort Worth Art Center, 1550-1650 A Century of Masters from the Collection of W.P. Chrysler, Jr., Sept. 7- Nov. 4, 1962, p. 20, no. 40, illustrated
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Venetian Paintings of the Sixteenth Century, Oct. 30-Dec. 15, 1963, no. 27
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The J. Paul Getty Collection, June 29-Sept.3, 1972, no. 38