Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715)

Diana and Endymion

细节

Benedetto Gennari (1633-1715)
Diana and Endymion
oil on canvas
85 x 114½in. (216 x 291cm.)

来源

Commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, but not paid for.
Presented to King Charles II in 1674.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 6 July 1988, lot 20 (catalogue entry assisted by Prisco Bagni) (£52,000).

出版

P. Bagni, Benedetto Gennari e la bottega del Guercino, Padua, 1986, p. 146.

拍场告示

TITLE: Venus and Adonis

PROVENANCE:
Apparently ordered by the Duke of Guastalla.
Supplied to Prince Eugene of Savoy.

LITERATURE:
P. Bagni, Benedetto Gennari e La Bottega del Guercino, 1986, pp. 173 & 187, no. 72.

This would appear to be the picture of 1702 described by Gennari as "..un Adone dormiente con Venere con diversi scherzi d'amorini..": this was ordered for the Duke of Guastalla but supplied to Prince Eugene of Savoy who secured a number of other pictures from the artist, nos. 71-76 of Gennari's list.

拍品专文

An autograph manuscript written by Gennari records that a Diana and Endymion was commissioned from the artist by Armand-Jean de Vignerot, duc de Richelieu, while the former was in Paris working at the court of Louis XIV between 1672 and 1674 (P. Bagni, op. cit., p. 146, note 15). The artist was, however, advised by friends not to deliver the painting until he had received payment from the Duke. He subsequently took it to England and presented it to Charles II in 1674.