The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter
Framed: 56 3/8 x 70 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches (143.18 x 178.13 x 6.03 cm)
La pittura del seicento a Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, Italy, June 27-October 25, 1959, no. 172.
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, no. 66.
Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 6-May 9, 1965, no. 198.
Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 16-June 15, 1969, no. 64.
Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 2-September 18, 1983, no. 42.
With Lever Gallery, London, by January 1932 [1];
Purchased at Fine pictures by masters of the English school and old masters, Sotheby’s, London, December 12, 1934, lot 19, by Schulman, 1934-no later than 1935;
Purchased from Schulman by Fratelli Volterra, Florence, by 1935;
With Sestieri, Rome, by 1950;
Purchased from Sestieri by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, April 25, 1950-1961;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] The picture was seen at Lever Gallery by Ellis K. Waterhouse sometime between January 19 and January 25, 1932, according to an entry titled “A little dealer-crawling” in his notebook (no. VI), now in the Getty Research Institute. It is also referred to by Hermann Voss (“Zur Kritik des Velazquez-Werkes,” Jahrbook der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, 1932, 53-55) as on the London art market in 1932.
Waterhouse notebook vol. 6, January 1932, p. 132, NAMA curatorial files.
Herman Voss, “Zur Kritik des Velázquez-Werkes,” Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 53 (1932): 55n1, (repro.).
G. D. Hobson et al., Catalogue of Fine Pictures by Masters of the English School and Old Masters (London: Sotheby’s, December 12, 1934), 6.
Cesare Gnudi, “Giunte al Mazzoni,” La Critica d’Arte 1 (1935-36): 181-82, (repro.).
W. E. Suida, “Italian Baroque Paintings in American Collections,” Art Quarterly 17, no.2 (Summer 1954): 105-06.
Decio Gioseffi, Inediti di Sebastiano Mazzoni ([Trieste]: Università degli studi di Trieste, 1954), 6.
Andor Pigler, Barockthemen, vol.1 (Budapest: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956), 115-16.
Nicola Ivanoff, “Sebastiano Mazzoni,” Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell’Arte 2 (1958-59): 213, 224, 225, 269, (repro.).
Pietro Zampetti, La pittura del seicento a Venezia, exh. cat. (Venice: Edizioni Alfieri, 1959), 111, (repro.).
Rodolfo Pallucchini, “La Mostra della pittura veneta del seicento,” Pantheon 18 (1960): 8.
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1961), unpaginated.
T. B. Hess, “Culture as the Great American Dream,” Art News 60 (December 1961): 55.
“Grand Finale of a Fabulous Handout,” Life 52 (February 19, 1962): 58-59, (repro.).
Frederick J. Cummings, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965), 15, 18, 172-73, (repro.).
Carlo Donzelli and Giuseppe Maria Pilo, I pittori del seicento Veneto (Florence: R. Sandron, 1967), 280-81, (repro.).
Helmut Kindler et al., Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, vol. 4 (Zürich: Kindler Verlag, 1967), 366.
Joan Nissman, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969), 59, (repro.).
Pietro Zampetti, A Dictionary of Venetian Painters, 17th Century, vol.3 (Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1971), 48.
Ralph T. Coe, “The Baroque and Rococo in France and Italy,” Apollo 96, no.130 (December 1972): 536, (repro.) [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 68, (repro.)].
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 140, 260, 589.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century (London: Phaidon, 1973), 125, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol.1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City,MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 112, (repro.).
Andor Pilger, Barockthemen, 2nd ed., vol.1 (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1974), 121.
Eduard A. Safarik, “Per la pittura veneta del seicento: Sebastiano Mazzoni,” Arte Veneta 28 (1974): 160, 160n29, 160n30, 168, (repro.).
Jewsej J. Rotenberg, Die Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts in Europa (Dresden: Verlag der Kunst Dresen, 1978), 49, (repro.).
Vittorio Sgarbi, “Appunti sulla matuità di Sebastiano Mazzoni,” Arte Veneta 34 (1980): 177.
Rodolfo Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del seicento, vol.1 (Milan: Alfieri, 1981), 228, 230, (repro.).
Franco Russoli, Dizionario enciclopedico dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, vol.7 (Milan: Mondadori, 1983), 320.
Scenes from the Hebrew Scriptures, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 13, (repro.).
Il seicento fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exh. cat. (Florence: Cantini Edizioni d'Arte, 1986), 120.
Mina Gregori and Erich Schleier, eds., La pittura in Italia: Il seicento, 2nd rev. ed. (Milan: Electa, 1989), 810.
Marilyn Perry, “Five-and-dime for millions,” Apollo 133 (1991): 157-160.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkin Museum of Art, 1993), 171, (repro.).
A gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, exh. cat. (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1994), 50, 57.
Elliot W. Rowlands, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings, 1300-1800 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 318-22, (repro.).
