Attributed to PAOLO DE MATTEIS* (1662-1728)

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Attributed to PAOLO DE MATTEIS* (1662-1728)

The Journey of Rebecca

oil on canvas
49 x 70¼in. (124.5 x 178.5cm.)

Provenance

Charles Storer, Ltd., London; sale, Sotheby's, London, Oct. 29, 1958, lot 25, as G.B. Castiglione (#95 to Lloyd)
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom purchased by the museum in 1970

Literature

M. Milkovich, catalogue of the exhibition, Luca Giordano in America, Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1964, p. 39, as Luca Giordano
O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, II, 1966, p. 368, as Luca Giordano
B. Fredericksen, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1972, pp. 52-53, no. 57, illustrated

Exhibited

Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The J. Paul Getty Collection, 1972, no. 32, illustrated, as Luca Giordano

Lot Essay

Two old labels on the reverse bear the numbers n.27731 and n.50505. There is also a wax collector's seal with a plumed knight's helmet and the inscription 'James Restorer Manchester'

The present lot exists in several versions: a reduced composition ascribed to Solimena formerly with Leger Galleries, London; a smaller version, given to Solimena, previously with Newhouse Galleries, New York (see advertisement, Burlington Magazine, September 1952); and a third version at Braunschweig, on loan from the government.