The Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Details

Girolamo Brusaferro (Venice 1679-1745)
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve
oil on canvas
46 ½ x 61 ¾ in. (118 x 156.7 cm.)

Provenance

with Central Picture Galleries, New York, where acquired by the La Salle University Art Museum in 1970.

Literature

Art Journal, XXIX, Spring 1970, n.p., as Antonio Molinari.
C.P. Wistar, La Salle College Art Museum Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 1984, pp. 32, 85, illustrated, as Antonio Molinari.
A. Craievich, 'Antonio Molinari pittore di "historie"', Arte Veneta, LIV, 1999, pp. 43-44, fig. 8, as Antonio Arrigoni.
C.P. Wistar, La Salle University Art Museum: Guide to the Collection, Philadelphia, 2002, p. 39, illustrated, as Antonio Molinari.
V. Bralić, 'Doprinosi opusu Girolama Brusaferra', Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, XXVIII, 2004, pp. 143-144.
A. Craievich, Antonio Molinari, Soncino, 2005, pp. 293-294, no. R.31, as a dubious or wrongly attributed work.

Lot Essay

Long attributed to Antonio Molinari due to the dramatic torsion of the figures arranged in a graceful composition, the present painting was first recognized as the work of the younger Venetian artist Girolamo Brusaferro by Visnja Bralić in 2004 (op. cit.). The attribution has subsequently been endorsed by Giorgio Fossaluzza in an unpublished paper given at a 2005 conference on Molinari and Venetian art held at the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (see A. Craievich, op. cit., p. 294).

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