Saint Agatha

1640s

Bernardo Cavallino Italian, 1616-1656 (?)

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Title Saint Agatha

Artwork Date 1640s

Artist Bernardo Cavallino

Life Dates 1616-1656 (?)

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 27 1/8 × 22 1/4 inches (68.9 × 56.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Standish Backus

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 45.508

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Inscriptions Inscribed, verso, upper left, before relining: .FR.AI(co).P.+

Provenance

1942, probably (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, New York, USA). by October 1945, (A. F. Mondschein, New York, New York, USA)

1945-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with the support of Mrs. Standish Backus (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Gems of Baroque Painting. Exh. cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1942, no. 18 (ill.).

"St. Agatha by Bernardo Cavallino, Italian, 1622-1654," Bulletin of the DIA 25, no. 3 (1946): 55, p. 55 (ill.).

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1965, p. 146, no. 162 (ill.).

Pepper, Stephen. "The Risorgimento and the Baroque: Detroit, The Flowering of the Baroque in and Out of Rome," Arts Magazine 39, no. 9 (May–June 1965): pp. 39-43, p. 42.

Percy, A. "Bernardo Cavallino." Master's Thesis, Pennsylvania State University, 1965, cat. 4.

Ostrow, Stephen E. Baroque Painting: Italy and Her Influence. Exh. Cat., American Federation of the Arts. New York, 1968, unpaginated, no. 12 (ill.).

Causa, R. "La pittura del seicento a Napoli dal naturalismo al barocco." In Storia di Napoli, vol. 5, pt. 2. 1972, pp. 942, 944 (ill.).

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 50. [as "Young Woman"].

Ferrari, Oreste. "Bernardo Cavallino." In Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 22. Rome, 1979, p. 768.

Whitfield, Clovis and Jane Martineau, eds. Painting in Naples: 1606–1705: From Caravaggio to Giordano. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1982, p. 143 [see entry, Cavallino "The Singer"].

La peinture napolitaine de Caravage à Giordano. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, p. 195.

La pittura a Napoli da Caravaggio a Luca Giordano. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Milan, 1983, p. 124.

Bernardo Cavallino of Naples 1616-1656. Exh. Cat., Cleveland Museum of Art and Kimbell Art Museum. Cleveland, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas, 1984, pp. 147-148, no. 48 (ill.).

L'Època del genis: renaixment, barroc. Exh. cat., Museu d'Art de Catalunya. Barcelona, 1988, pp. 275-276 (ill.).

Bissell, R. Ward, Andria Derstine and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 52-3, no. 16 (ill.).

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