About the Artwork
Moses and the Daughters of Jethro
1630s
Sigismondo Coccapani
1583 - 1643
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 41 1/8 × 57 5/16 inches (104.4 × 145.5 cm) Framed: 50 5/8 × 66 × 3 3/16 inches (128.6 × 167.6 × 8.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund
1983.6
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Markings
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Shipping label on frame reverse: Martinspeed Limited/37 Urlwin Street London SE5 ONG/Telephone 01-701 6815;01 9035 Telex: 883762/Matthiesen
Provenance
December 9, 1981, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) [as circle of Giovanni Francesco Romanelli]
1983, (Matthiesen Fine Art, Ltd., London, England)
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Important Old Master Paintings. Sales cat., Sotheby's. London, December. 9, 1981, lot 78. [as circle of Giovan Francesco Romanelli]
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 61, no. 3 (1983) pp. 14. 20, 22 (fig. 19.).
Le banche e l'arte. Exh. cat., Castel Sant'Angelo. Rome, 1985, p. 27
Il seicento Fiorentino. Exh. cat., Palazzo Strozzi. Florence, 1986, vol. 1, p. 211
Acanfora, E. Alessandro Rosi. Florence, 1994, pp. 71-2, cat. 24 (fig. 22) pl. 20.
Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11 (note 16), 54-57, cat. no. 17.
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 99, 102.
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Sigismondo Coccapani, Moses and the Daughters of Jethro, 1630s, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 1983.6.
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