Giorgio Vasari
Dispute of Saint Catherine with Emperor Maxentius
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Giorgio Vasari
(Arezzo 1511 – 1574 Florence)
The Dispute of Saint Catherine with Emperor Maxentius
Pen and brown ink and light brown wash over black chalk, within partial brown ink framing lines, arched top;
extensively inscribed by the artist in brown ink, verso, with lists of artists’ names and dates related to the 1550 edition of Vasari’s Lives
200 by 108 mm; 7⅞ by 4¼ in.
Private collection;
sale, London, Christie's, 8 April 1986, lot 24;
Dr. George Goldner, Los Angeles;
with Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich and London, Drawing in Florence, 1500-1650, 1991, no. 6;
Elmar W. Seibel, Boston, until 1999;
with Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd., London, Old Master Drawings. Recent Acquisitions, 2000, no. 1,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, pp. 40-41, no. 14, reproduced (recto and verso) (entry by Rhoda Eitel-Porter);
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, p. 75, no. 14
J. Kliemann, 'Giorgio Vasari: Kunstgeschichtliche Perspektiven', P. Ganz et al., (eds.), Kunst und Kunsttheorie 1400-1900, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, XLVIII, Wolfenbüttel,1991, pp. 65-74, figs. 1-2;
D. Ekserdjian, 'Lessons from an exhibition. Katrin Bellinger's summer show', Apollo, vol. CXXXIV, no. 356 (1991), p. 284, fig. 1, (recto);
D. Jaffé, review, 'Old Master Paintings and Drawings', Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXIII (1991), p. 470, fig. 44, (recto);
P. Rubin, Giorgio Vasari, Art and History, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 178-179, figs. 68-69 (recto and verso);
C. Davis, 'La fortuna di Giorgio Vasari nell'incisione: "L'architettura di Leon Battista Alberti" del 1565 e altre vicende', W. Liebenwein and A. Tempestini (eds.), Gedenkschrift für Richard Harprath, Munich and Berlin 1998, p. 114;
B. Agosti and G. Agosti, Le tavole del Lomazzo (per i 70 anni di Paola Barocchi), Brescia 1997, p. 6, fig. 1;
G. Sassu, 'Percorsi della Maniera: tre Giorgio Vasari e Prospero Fontana', Arte a Bologna, V, 1999, 155, fig. 6;
Alte Meister. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Graphischen Sammlung, exhib. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 2000, p. 144;
F. Härb, ‘Prospero Fontana alias Giorgio Vasari. Collaboration and the Limits of Authorship', Salviati ou la Bella Maniera (proceedings of the conference, Rome and Paris, 1998), 2001, pp. 577-608;
M. Faietti and D. Cordellier, Il Cinquecento a Bologna. Disegni dal Louvre e dipinti a confronto, exhib. cat., Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, 2002, p. 231, under nos. 54, 59;
F. Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari, 1510-1574, Rome 2015, pp. 300-301, no. 147, reproduced figs. 147r and 147v
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