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Possibly Count Alessandro Fava; his son, Count Pietro Ercole Fava [1667 or 1669-1744], Bologna, by 1739;[1] his son, Carlo Fava [d. 1790], Bologna, until at least c. 1770.[2] (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], New York), by 1938;[3] purchased 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Giampietro Zanotti, Storia dell'Accademia Clementina di Bologna, 2 vols., Bologna, 1739 (reprinted 1977): 2:106, places the painting in Palazzo Fava; it is listed in Pietro Ercole's posthumous inventory of 1745, published in Giovanni Campori, Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventari inediti, Modena, 1870 (reprinted Bologna 1975): 602. Alessandro Fava was Creti's first patron and collected many of the artist's drawings.

[2] It appears in the list of paintings in Bolognese houses compiled in the 1760s and 1770s by Marcello Oretti, "Le pitture...della Città di Bologna", 3 vols., Biblioteca Comunale, Bologna, MS B104, in Marcello Oretti e il patrimonio artistico privato bolognese. (Documenti 22), edited by Emilia Calbi and Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian, Bologna, 1984: 90. According to Giuseppe Guidicini, Cose notabili della città di Bologna, 5 vols., 1868-1873: 2:186-188, Carlo Fava had no heirs and the palace passed to another branch of the family.

[3] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, London, 1973: 101; and Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:148.

[4] Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection, Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-1956, Washington, D.C., 1956: 62.

Exhibition History

1980
Alexander the Great: History and Legend in Art, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, 1980, not in cat.
1981
The Search for Alexander, trav. exh., ptg. shown: Natl. Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston; M.H. de Young Mus., San Fran.; New Orleans Mus. of Art, 1981-1982, and Royal Ontario Mus., Toronto, 1983, no. 23 and no. S-3 in cats.

Bibliography

1739
Zanotti, Giampietro. Storia dell'Accademia Clementina di Bologna. 2 vols. Bologna, 1739: 106-107 (reprinted 1977).
1769
Crespi, Luigi. Vita de' pittori bolognesi non descritte nella Felsina Pittrice. Rome, 1769: 253.
1809
Lanzi, Luigi. Storia pittorica della Italia. 6 vols. Bassano, 1809: 5:178 (English ed., London, 1828).
1907
Voss, Hermann. "Creti, Donato." In Thieme-Becker 37 vols. 1907-1950. Leipzig, 1913: 8:100.
1932
Alcsuti, Caterina. "Donata Creti, pittore bolognese (1671-1749)." Il comune di Bologna, rivista mensile municipale 9 (September 1932): 18.
1956
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 62, no. 21, repro., as The Quarrel.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 229, repro., as The Quarrel.
1959
Roli, Renato. "Donato Creti." Arte Antica e Moderna 7 (1959): 332, fig. 149a.
1961
Seymour 1961 (Kress), 164, repro. pl. 158.
1963
Roli, Renato. "Dipinti inediti di Donata Creti." Arte Antica e Moderna 23 (1963): 248, 249.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 34, as The Quarrel.
1967
Roli, Renato. Donato Creti. Milan, 1967: 25, 26-27, 92, 98, no. 101, fig. 13, color pl. I.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 28, repro., as The Quarrel.
1971
Faces and Figures of the Baroque. Autumn Exhibition. Exh. cat. Heim Gallery, London, 1971: 10.
1972
Fredericksen and Zeri 1972, 59, 479, 647.
1973
Roli, Renato. "Drawings by Donato Creti: Notes for a Chronology." Master Drawings 11 (1973): 31, no. 21.
1973
Roli, Renato. Donato Creti: 46 disegni inediti. Bologna, 1973: under no. 12.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 100-101, fig. 185.
1974
Ruggeri, Ugo. "Nuovi disegni di Donato Creti." Musei ferraresi Bollettino annuale 4 (1974): 19.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 88, repro., as The Quarrel.
1977
Roli, Renato. Pittura bolognese 1650-1800. Dal Cignani ai Gandolfi.Bologna, 1977: 117, 254, fig. 192a.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:147-149, II:pl. 104, as Philip of Macedon Menacing His Son Alexander.
1984
Miller, D. Entry on Donato Creti. In Dizionario biografico degli italiani. 1-(36) vols. Rome, 1960-: 30(1984):749-750.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 344, no. 470, color repro., as The Quarrel.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 107, repro., as The Quarrel.
1988
Roli, Renato. "Una insolita 'Veronica' di Donato Creti e altre aggiunte." In Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Raffaello Causa. Naples, 1988: 328.
1989
Riccomini, Marco. "A Rediscovered Bozzetto by Donata Creti." The Burlington Magazine 131 (1989): 420.
1989
Roli, Renato. "La pittura in Emilia Romagna nella prima metà del settecento." In La pittura in Italia. Edited by Mina Gregori and Erich Schleier. 2 vols. Rev. ed. Milan, 1989: 1:259.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 77-83, color repro. 79.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 238, no. 187, color repro.

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