National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Martyrdom of Saint Margaret
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Inscription

lower left on rock: IOSEPHVS CAESAR / ARPINAS

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Provenance

Spanish Royal Collection, Palacio Nuevo, Madrid, by 1772 until at least 1794.[1] Private collection, France, until 1970.[2] (P & D Colnaghi & Co., London, 1971). (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1981, no. 92). (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], London), by 1983; purchased 1984 by NGA.

[1] Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Pintura italiana del s. XVII en España, Madrid, 1965: 224, citing inventories of 1772 and 1794: "otro en lámina, del Martirio de Santa Margarita, de vara de largo y tres cuartos de ancho, original de Joseph Arpinas." The dimensions correspond exactly and it would seem logical that an inventory-taker might confuse copper and panel. A painting identified as "el martirio de una Santa" by the Cavaliere d'Arpino was listed with the same dimensions but no record of support in the royal inventory of 1789-1790: Inventarios reales: Carlos III, transcribed by Fernando Fernandez-Miranda y Lozana, Madrid, 1988: 19, no. 73. It has not been identified in the inventories of Charles II: Testamentaria del Rey Carlos II 1701-1703, edited by Gloria Fernández Bayton, 3 vols., Madrid, 1975-1985. The painting was also seen by visitors to the Royal Collections: Antonio Ponz, Viaje en España, edited by C. M. del Rivero, Madrid, 1947 (first edition Madrid 1772-1794): 6:526; Richard Cumberland, An Accurate and Descriptive Catalogue of the Several Paintings in the King of Spain's Palace at Madrid, London, 1777, 51; Antonio Conca y Alvarez, Descrizione odeporica della Spagna, Parma, 1793: 116.

[2] According to Herwarth Röttgen, Cavalier d'Arpino, exh. cat. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1973: 126.

Exhibition History

1971
Paintings by Old Masters, Colnaghi & Co., London, 1971, no. 12.
1973
Il Cavalier d'Arpino, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1973, no. 45, repro. (cat. by Herwarth Röttgen).

Bibliography

1971
"Notable Works of Art now on the Market, Advertisement Supplement." The Burlington Magazine 113 (1971): no. and pl. 18.
1973
Röttgen, Herwarth. Cavalier d'Arpino. Exh. cat. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1973: 41.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 78, repro.
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: 62-65, color repro. 63.

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