Saint Matthew and the Angel
c. 1645/1648
Artist, Pesarese, 1612 - 1648


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 29
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 116.8 x 90.8 cm (46 x 35 3/4 in.)
framed: 146.1 x 119.4 x 8.3 cm (57 1/2 x 47 x 3 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1972.44.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Hagström, Stockholm, by 1937.[1] (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 11 December 1959, no. 108, as by Guercino); James O. Belden, Paris and Washington; gift 1972 to NGA.
[1] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, 1979: 1:110.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 62-63, color repro.
Bibliography
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 54, repro.
Borea, Evelina. Pittori bolognesi del seicento nelle gallerie di Firenze. Exh. cat. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1975: 66.
Mancigotti, Mario. Simone Cantarini, il Pesarese. Pesaro, 1975: 136.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:110-111; 2:pl. 76.
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d'Arte n.s. 45/172-174 (1980): 217-220.
Ferretti Colombo, Anna. "Simone Cantarini: Dalla marca baroccesca alla bassa padana." Bollettino d'Arte 67 (1980): 28.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 74, repro.
1986
Mazza, Angelo. In The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Exh. cat. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986-1987. Washington, D.C., 1986: 398.
1992
Colombi Ferretti, Anna. "Simone Cantarini." In La scuola di Guido Reni. Edited by Emilio Negro and Massimo Pirondini. Modena, 1992: 119, 126, color pl. 121.
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: 41-42, repro. 43.
Wikidata ID
Q20177215