Saint John the Evangelist
Carlo Crivelli(Italian, active 1457 - c. 1493)
- Date
- c. 1470
- Medium
- Tempera on wood panel
- Dimensions
-
12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.
32.1 x 23.5 cm
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. F. Kleinberger
- Accession No.
- 28.7
- Provenance
- Montefiore dell'Aso, near Fermo, Chiesa Conventuale di San Francesco (sold in the 1850s);
Rome, Pietro Vallati (dealer-by by May 1858);
London, Easton Place, Collection, G. Cornwall Legh (by 1859 or shortly thereafter);
By inheritance, High Legh Hall, Collection Lt. Col. H. Cornwall Legh (until 1926);
London, R. Langton Douglas and Colnaghi (dealers-1926);
London & New York, Kleinberger Galleries (dealer-about 1926), by whom given to the DIA in 1928.
- Keywords
-
paint, panel, religion, wood, christian
Published References
Testi, L., Storia della pittura veneziana , vol. 2, Bergamo, 1915, pp. 612, 672.
Valentiner, W.R., "Two Panels by Carlo Crivelli," Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 9, no. 6, 1927/1928, pp. 72-73, repr.
Drey, F., Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule , Munich, 1927, p. 126, p. XIX (owned by Kleinberger Galleries, New York).
Heil, W., ¦Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts,¦ Detroit, 1930, cat. 46, repr.
London, Royal Academy, "Exhibition of Italian Art," 1930-1931, ivi, p. 68.
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance , Oxford, 1932, p. 161.
Berenson, B., Pitture italiane del rinascimento , Milan, 1936, p. 139.
Van Marle, R., The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings , Vol. XVIII (The renaissance painters of Venice), The Hague, 1936, p. 13 (cited).
Drey, F., 1937, p. 126.
Richardson, E. P., ed., DIA Catalogue of Paintings , Detroit, 1944 (2nd ed.), p. 34, no. 46.
Davies, M., The Earlier Italian Schools , London (National Gallery), 1951 (text), p. 119
Zampetti, P., Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche , Urbino, 1952, pp. 30, 67.
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School , vol. I, London, 1957, p. 69.
Berenson, B., 1958, p. 71. (?)
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, "Crivelli e i Crivelleschi", 10 June - 10 Oct. 1961, p. 74, no. 16 (entry by P. Zampetti).
Zampetti, P., Carlo Crivelli , Milan, 1961, p. 82, fig. 63.
Zeri, F., "Cinque schede su Carlo Crivelli," Arte antica e moderna , 1961, p. 159.
Davies, M., The Earlier Italian Schools , London (National Gallery), 2nd ed., 1961, pp. 154-55 (cited).
DIA, Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965 , Detroit, 1965, p. 30.
Valentini, A., and Dania, L., La pittura à Fermo , Fermo, 1967, pp. 15-16.
Shapely, F.R., Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools , vol. 2 (XV - XVI century), London, 1968, p. 36 (DIA panel cited among series of panels belonging to Montefiore dell'Aso altarpiece).
Frederickson, B. & Zeri, F., Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections , Cambridge (MA), 1972, p. 60.
Bovero, A., L'opera completa del Crivelli , Milan, 1974, pp. 87-88, no. 27.
Pope-Hennessy, J., The Robert Lehman Collection. Italian Paintings , vol. 1, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, p. 224, fig. 82 (DIA panel cited in entry for cat. 92, ¦An Apostle¦, both of which probably belonged to the predella of an altarpiece at Montefiore dell'Aso near Fermo).
Zampetti, P., Carlo Carvelli , Florence, 1986, pp. 268-69; repr. p. 269, pl. 37.
Lightbown, R., Carlo Crivelli , New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 187, 202, repro p. 201, fig. 72 (identified as an Evangelist, probably St. Luke, possibly St. Mark).
