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拍品專文
Professor Ballarin dates this picture to circa 1576. He points out that, although Jacopo often collaborated with his son Francesco in this period, the great freedom with which the paint is applied in broad strokes is typical of Jacopo. Also the vivacious depiction of the dogs reveals the hand of the master (letter 29 April 1992; see Ballarin, op. cit., II, pl. 256-258). This is the only known autograph picture that corresponds closely to the print by Johan Sadeler. Although Sadeler recorded under the print that it is engraved after a picture by Jacopo, Ballarin believes that the engraving is actually not based on this painting but on a later studio version (letter 29 April 1992). A later, studio replica is in the National Gallery, Prague (inv. no. 02952).
The collection at 5 Carlton House Terrace was mainly formed by Du Pr Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It comprised Italian, Dutch and Flemish pictures, including Van Dyck's Portrait of a lady with her child [then identified as the Marchesa Spinola] (Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio). It is possible that the present picture was acquired by the 2nd Earl of Caledon although Waagen did not record it at Carlton House Terrace (G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, pp. 147-152).
The collection at 5 Carlton House Terrace was mainly formed by Du Pr Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It comprised Italian, Dutch and Flemish pictures, including Van Dyck's Portrait of a lady with her child [then identified as the Marchesa Spinola] (Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio). It is possible that the present picture was acquired by the 2nd Earl of Caledon although Waagen did not record it at Carlton House Terrace (G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, pp. 147-152).