Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Details

Attributed to Jacopo Torni, dell'Indaco (Florence 1476-1526 Villena)
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
oil on panel
11¼ x 16 in. (28.6 x 40.6 cm.)

Provenance

Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres (1812-1880), and by descent to his grandson
David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres, Haigh Hall, Lancashire; Christie's, London, 11 October 1946, lot 65, as 'Franciabigio' (110 gns. to Wallrop).
with Wildenstein, 1962.

Literature

S.R. McKillop, Franciabigio, Berkeley and London, 1974, p. 202 as 'perhaps Emilian or from the Veneto'.

Exhibited

London, Wildenstein, Religious Themes in Painting from the 14th Century onwards, 16 March-5 May 1962, no. 3, illustrated.
London, Rafael Valls, Old Masters, Summer 1976, no. 5, as Italian School early 16th Century.

Special notice

This lot has no reserve VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Everett Fahy for suggesting an attribution to Jacopo dell'Indaco on the basis of photographs. He further suggests that it may belong to the same complex as the artist's Temple of Hercules in the Palazzo Davanzati (see F. Sricchia Santoro, 'Del Franciabigio dell'Indaco e di una vecchia questione', Prospettiva, 1993, nos. 70 and 71).

The 25th Earl of Crawford, author as Lord Lindsay of Sketches of the History of Christian Art, 1847, was one of the greatest of the nineteenth-century collectors: for a detailed account see N. Barker, Biblioteca Lindesiana, 1977.

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