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Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino The Virgin with Child and Saint Joseph
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Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino The Virgin with Child and Saint Joseph
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Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino
Arpino or Rome 1568–1640 Rome
The Virgin with Child and Saint Joseph
oil on canvas
unframed: 66.7 x 50.5 cm.; 26¼ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 89 x 64.6 cm.; 35 x 25⅜ in.
D'Arpino was the leading painter in Rome in the final decades of the 16th century. He belonged to a family of painters: his father, Muzio Cesari, was an artist, as was his brother, Bernardino, who later became his principal assistant. From early in his career, Cesariwas patronized by an elite and important clientele. He was quickly promoted by his master Niccolò Circignani from garzone to junior painter on the team which was frescoing part of the Vatican Loggie. Although largely employed in ambitious decorative schemes, including a series of decorative friezes at the Palazzo del Quirnale (since destroyed), as well as the still extant frescoes in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, it is for his more intimate scenes on panel, copper, slate and semi-precious stone, that Arpino is most admired. His position as the favoured painter in Rome would remain fairly secure even after thearrival of the Carracci and Caravaggio (1571–1610), the latter of whom was his pupil for a short time.
ThisVirgin with Child and Saint Joseph,a hitherto unpublished addition to the artist's œuvre, is an autograph variant of the Virgin and Child now located in the Abbey at Montecassino.1Herwarth Röttgen has dateditto the latter part of Cesari's career, which wouldlogically place it at about the same moment as the Montecassino Virgin and Child, circa 1630–35. The rendering of the Virgin, with her slender oval face and almond-shaped eyes, can again be compared to another late work, Virgin and Child with Saints Joseph and Elizabeth, which was sold in New York, Sotheby's, 22 May 1992, lot 189.2
Similar to these published pictures, this work displays with exquisite quality all of thehallmark vibrancy,more rigid sense of line,and colour indicative of Cesari'slate works. The violet madder red, pure azure, cream-coloured veil and pale incarnation all demonstrate the confidence and skill of a painter emboldened by years of success.
We are grateful to Herwarth Röttgen for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of digital images.
1 H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Un grande pittore nello splendore della fama e nell'incostanza della fortuna, Rome 2002, p. 466, no. 246, reproduced.
2 Röttgen 2002, p. 478, no. 263, reproduced.
Arpino or Rome 1568–1640 Rome
The Virgin with Child and Saint Joseph
oil on canvas
unframed: 66.7 x 50.5 cm.; 26¼ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 89 x 64.6 cm.; 35 x 25⅜ in.
D'Arpino was the leading painter in Rome in the final decades of the 16th century. He belonged to a family of painters: his father, Muzio Cesari, was an artist, as was his brother, Bernardino, who later became his principal assistant. From early in his career, Cesariwas patronized by an elite and important clientele. He was quickly promoted by his master Niccolò Circignani from garzone to junior painter on the team which was frescoing part of the Vatican Loggie. Although largely employed in ambitious decorative schemes, including a series of decorative friezes at the Palazzo del Quirnale (since destroyed), as well as the still extant frescoes in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, it is for his more intimate scenes on panel, copper, slate and semi-precious stone, that Arpino is most admired. His position as the favoured painter in Rome would remain fairly secure even after thearrival of the Carracci and Caravaggio (1571–1610), the latter of whom was his pupil for a short time.
ThisVirgin with Child and Saint Joseph,a hitherto unpublished addition to the artist's œuvre, is an autograph variant of the Virgin and Child now located in the Abbey at Montecassino.1Herwarth Röttgen has dateditto the latter part of Cesari's career, which wouldlogically place it at about the same moment as the Montecassino Virgin and Child, circa 1630–35. The rendering of the Virgin, with her slender oval face and almond-shaped eyes, can again be compared to another late work, Virgin and Child with Saints Joseph and Elizabeth, which was sold in New York, Sotheby's, 22 May 1992, lot 189.2
Similar to these published pictures, this work displays with exquisite quality all of thehallmark vibrancy,more rigid sense of line,and colour indicative of Cesari'slate works. The violet madder red, pure azure, cream-coloured veil and pale incarnation all demonstrate the confidence and skill of a painter emboldened by years of success.
We are grateful to Herwarth Röttgen for confirming the attribution of the present painting on the basis of digital images.
1 H. Röttgen, Il Cavalier Giuseppe Cesari D'Arpino, Un grande pittore nello splendore della fama e nell'incostanza della fortuna, Rome 2002, p. 466, no. 246, reproduced.
2 Röttgen 2002, p. 478, no. 263, reproduced.