A Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola
1733
Artist, Venetian, 1659 - 1734
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 30
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 84.9 × 35.2 cm (33 7/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
framed: 95.4 × 46.2 × 5.4 cm (37 9/16 × 18 3/16 × 2 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.71
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Count Grigory Stroganov [1829-1910], Rome.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome, 1927); purchased 1931 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to National Gallery of Art, Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1941: 169. This painting and its pendant (NGA 1939.1.72) do not appear in catalogues of Stroganov sales or in those of the collection, which include only selected works. According to Antonio Muñoz, La collezione Stroganoff, Rome, 1910, Stroganov amassed his collection c. 1880-1890 and bought many things from the sale of Cardinal Immenraet. It has not been possible to locate a catalogue of the Immenraet collection.
[2] The dates are given on the back of a photograph sent to the Frick Art Reference Library by Alessandro Contini Bonacossi at the NGA on 1 July 1969. The painting and its pendant are documented in the Kress collection in 1932 by Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection", The Fine Arts 19 (December 1932): 30; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/64.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Il Settecento italiano, Palazzo delle Biennale, Venice, 1929, no. 19.
1932
An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges, and Art Associations, travelling exhibition, 24 venues, 1932-1935, mostly unnumbered catalogues, p. 46 or p. 52, repro.
1938
Exhibition of Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1938, no. 50, repro., as Saint Francis of Paola Resuscitating a Boy.
Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, no. 2, repro., as Saint Francis of Paolo Resuscitating a Boy.
Special Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, August-October 1938, no catalogue.
1989
Sebastiano Ricci, Villa Manin di Passariano, Udine, 1989, no. 69 (cat. by Aldo Rizzi).
2010
Sebastiano Ricci. Il trionfo dell'invenzione nel Settecento veneziano., Exhibition Facilities, Ex Convitto, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 2010, no. 26, repro.
Bibliography
1932
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection." The Fine Arts 19 (December 1932): 30.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 169, no. 182.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 243, repro. 177.
1950
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Giunte a Sebastiano Ricci." Proporzioni 3 (1950): 214.
1952
Palluchini, Rodolfo. "Studi Ricceschi I, Contributo a Sebastiano." Arte Veneta 6 (1952): 83.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 232, repro.
1960
Pallucchini 1960, 17, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 114.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 102, repro.
1969
Daniels, Jeffery. "Sebastiano Ricci: The Last Phase." Apollo 90 (1969): 10, color pl. 2.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 175.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 128-129, fig. 255.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 304, repro.
1976
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. "Sebastiano Ricci e il rococò europeo." In Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. Milan, 1976: 15-16.
Daniels, Jeffery. L'opera completa di Sebastiano Ricci. Milan, 1976: 137, no. 520, color pl. 62.
Daniels, Jeffery. Sebastiano Ricci. Hove, 1976: 153, no. 529-a, fig. 310.
Martini, Egidio. "Due bozzetti di Sebastiano Ricci e alcune osservazioni sulla sua tecnica pittorica." In Atti del Congress internationzale di studi su Sebastiano Ricci e il suo tempo. Milan, 1976: 37.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:398-400; 2:pl. 283.
1980
Fornari Schianchi, Lucia. In Arte e Pietà. I patrimoni culturali delle opere pie. Exh. cat. Museo Civico, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, and Conservatorio del Baraccano. Bologna, 1980: 328.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 351, repro.
1987
Cirillo, Giuseppe, and Giovanni Godi. La Pinacoteca Stuard di Parma. Parma, 1987: 146.
1988
Tanzi, Marco. In Bozzetti, modelli e grisailles dal XVI al XVIII secolo. Exh. cat. Fondazione Lungarotti at Museo del Vino, Torgiano. Milan, 1988: 74.
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: 224-230, color repro. 227.
Wikidata ID
Q20177873