The Calling of Saint Peter

Details

Antonio Tempesta (Florence 1555-1630 Rome)
The Calling of Saint Peter
oil on lapis lazuli, oval
6½ x 12 7/8 in. (16.5 x 32.7 cm.)

Provenance

Charles Reilly, by whom given in 1846 to
St. Mary's College, Oscott.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2003, lot 2, as Antonio Carracci, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present painting corresponds very closely in style, dimensions, shape and material to a pair of pictures of The Finding of Moses and Moses turning Water into Blood, both in a private collection, Milan (see A.G. De Marchi, in the exhibition catalogue, Pietra Dipinta, Milan, November 2000-February 2001, p. 100, no. 51). Andrea G. De Marchi confirms that unlike many of Tempesta's paintings on stone, both the present painting and the Milan pair are automonomous works of art that do not derive from any known print. He dates the paintings to the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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