Antonello da Messina

Private collection, Spain, by circa 1900;

From whom acquired by Wildenstein & Co., 1967;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby’s, New York, by Fabrizio Moretti;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Museu de Belles Arts de València, El Renacimiento Mediterráneo, Viajes de artistas y itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y España en el siglo XV, 31 January - 2 September 2001, no. 59 (lent from a private collection);

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master, 13 December 2005 - 5 March 2006, no. 2 (lent from a private collection);

Rome, Scudiere del Quirinale, Antonello da Messina, l’opera completa, 18 March - 25 June 2006, nos. 6, 7 (lent from a private collection, New York, courtesy of Wildenstein & Co.);

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Antonello da Messina, 21 February - 2 June 2019, no. 2 (lent from a private collection).

F. Sricchia Santoro, Antonello e l’Europa, Milan 1986, pp. 8, 98, 100;

F. Zeri, Dietro l’immagine, Conversazioni sull’arte di leggere l’arte, Milan 1987, pp. 26-28, reproduced figs. 11, 12;

M.G. Paolini, "Antonello da Messina," in Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: Die Bildenden Künstler alter Zeiten und Volker, vol. IV, Munich and Leipzig 1992, p. 324 (under possible attributions);

L. Arbace, Antonello da Messina, Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence 1993, p. 35, cat. no. 9, reproduced;

D. Thiébaut, Le Christ à la colonne d'Antonello de Messine, Paris 1993, pp. 42, 76-81, reproduced figs. 61, 62;

G. Barbera, Antonello da Messina, Milan 1997, pp. 23, 40-41, reproduced;

C. Savettieri, Antonello da Messina, Palermo 1998, pp. 15, 21, 80-81, cat. no. 9, reproduced;

F. Simonetti, “Fortuna critica dell’Ecce Homo di Palazzo Spinola,” in Ecce Homo, Antonello da Messina: Genova e Piacenza, due versioni a confronto, F. Simonetti (ed.), Genoa 2000, p. 37;

F. Sricchia Santoro, “Il tema dell’Ecce Homo nel percorso di Antonello,” in Ecce Homo, Antonello da Messina: Genova e Piacenza, due versioni a confronto, F. Simonetti (ed.), Genoa 2000, pp. 10-11;

D. Thiébaut, “Dagli Ecce Homo al Cristo alla colonna,” in Ecce Homo, Antonello da Messina: Genova e Piacenza, due versioni a confronto, F. Simonetti (ed.), Genoa 2000, pp. 20-21;

M. Natale, “Antonello da Messina,” in El Renacimiento Mediterráneo, Viajes de artistas y itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y España en el siglo XV, exhibition catalogue, M. Natale (ed.), Madrid 2001, pp. 35, 391-396, cat. no. 59, reproduced;

M.L. Koster, "Book Reviews," in Simiolus 28, no. 4 (2000-2001), p. 319;

C.B. Strehlke, "Exhibition Reviews: Madrid and Valencia, The Mediterranean Renaissance," in Burlington Magazine 143, no. 1178 (May 2001), pp. 320-321, reproduced fig. 95;

A. Devitini and N. Righi, “L’Ecce Homo di Antonello da Messina nella collezione del Collegio Alberoni di Piacenza,” in Antonello da Messina: Ecce Homo, exhibition catalogue, P. Biscottini (ed.), Milan 2002, pp. 27-28, reproduced;

D. Gasparotto, Il Collegio Alberoni di Piacenza: Guida alle collezioni, Milan 2003, p. 48;

G. Barbera, in Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master, exhibition catalogue, G. Barbera (ed.), New York 2005, p. 26;

A. Bayer, in Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master, exhibition catalogue, G. Barbera (ed.), New York 2005, p. 37, cat. no. 2, reproduced;

K. Christiansen, in Antonello da Messina, Sicily’s Renaissance Master, exhibition catalogue, G. Barbera (ed.), New York 2005, p. 15;

G. Glueck, "How Do You Like Your Portraits? Roguish, Refined or Sublime?" New York Times, 6 January 2006;

K. Wilkin, "Antonello da Messina at the Met," in New Criterion 24, no. 6 (February 2006), pp. 48-49;

J.H. Beck, "Exhibitions: Antonello the Italian," in Apollo 163, no. 532 (June 2006), p. 89 (as "possibly of Ferrarese origin");

M. Lucco, Antonello da Messina, L’opera completa, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2006, pp. 138-141, cat. nos. 6-7, reproduced;

P. Leone De Castris, "Mostre: Antonello da Messina," in Napoli nobilissima 7, nos. 5-6 (September-December 2006), pp. 229, 231;

L. Syson, "Antonello da Messina," in Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006), pp. 542-543;

T. Pugliatti, Antonello da Messina, Rigore ed emozione, Palermo 2008, pp. 36-38, reproduced;

M. Lucco, Antonello da Messina, Milan 2011, pp. 48, 60, 64, 92, 186, 270 note 96, 282, cat. no. 2, reproduced figs. 45, 46;

P. Weller, "Pain and Pathos: Franciscan Ideologies and Antonello da Messina's Images of Ecce Homo," in Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish America, H. Graham and L.G. Kilroy-Ewbank (eds.), Leiden 2017, pp. 169-206, reproduced;

C. Cardona and G.C.F. Villa, Antonello da Messina, exhibition catalogue, C. Cardona and G.C.F. Villa (eds.), Milan 2019, p. 114, cat. no. 2, reproduced.