The Penitent Saint Jerome
Framed: 45 1/2 x 40 x 2 3/4 inches (115.57 x 101.6 x 6.99 cm)
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Tanzio da Varallo: Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento, Palazzo Reale, Milan, April 13-July 2, 2000, no. 18.
Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, Museo Civico “Ala Ponzone,” Cremona, February 14-May 2, 2004; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 27-August 15, 2004, no. 88.
Possibly d’Adda Collection, Varallo, by 1709 [1];
Probably Conte Luigi Caroelli (d. 1721), Milan, by 1720 [2];
Masseran Family, Château d’Apremont-sur-l’Allier, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France, by 1818 [3];
By descent to the Saint Sauveur Family, Château d’Apremont-sur-l’Allier, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France, 1818-1924;
By descent to the Duc de Brissac Family, Château d’Apremont-sur-l’Allier, Saint-Amand-Montrond, France, 1924-December 11, 1996 [4];
Purchased at their sale, Estampes et Dessins, Tableaux Anciens, Ceramiques, Objets Montes…, Mes. Etienne et Damien Libert & Alain Castor, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 11, 1996, lot 20, by Simon Dickinson, Ltd., London, 1996-1997;
Purchased from Dickinson by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1997.
NOTES:
[1] According to Simon Dickinson, Simon Dickinson Ltd., in a letter to Roger Ward, Curator, May 27, 1997, NAMA curatorial files, this painting may be included in a 1709 appraisal of the d’Adda collection, in which there is a reference to “una mezza figura di S. Gerolamo del mano di Tanzio il Famoso lo stesso.” This archival reference has not been confirmed.
[2] This painting is probably the one listed, along with its pendant, in the 1720 inventory of the Caroelli collection as “due mezze figura una di S. Gerolamo e una di S. Giovanni battista con cornice intagliata” and attributed to Antonio Varallo. This inventory is published in Alessandro Giulini, “Una Pregevole Raccolta di Quadri nel Settecento,” Archivio Storico Lombardo 60, no. 3 (1933): 405-412.
[3] According to Elvire de Brissac, owner of the Château d’Apremont-sur-l’Allier, in emails to MacKenzie Mallon, October 9, 2013, and September 1, 2014, it is unclear when the Masseran family acquired the painting. The Saint Sauveur family married into the Masseran family in 1801 and inherited the Château d’Apremont-sur-l’Allier in 1818. The Saint Sauveur and Brissac families were joined through marriage in 1924.
[4] According to Etienne Bréton, Saint Honoré Art Consulting, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Provenance Specialist, October 8, 2013, NAMA curatorial files, the painting descended through the Masseran and Brissac families.
Alessandro Giulini, “Una pregevole raccolta di quandri nel Settecento and Principi moscoviti a Milano nel Settecento,” Archivio Storico Lombardo 60, no. 12 (1933): 407.
Marco Bona Castellotti, “Un “San Giovanni” del Tanzio ritrovato,” Arte all’incanto (1985): 29-30.
Estampes et Dessins, Tableaux Anciens, Ceramiques, Objets Montés, Sculptures et Objets de Curiosité…(Paris: Hôtel Drouot, December 11, 1996), 9, (repro.).
“Ou il est question d’attribution,” L’Objets de Art 50, no. 310 (February 1997): 21, (repro.).
“A Selection of Museum Acquisitions,” Apollo 146, no. 430 (December 1997): 16, (repro.).
Henry Sorensen et al., Drouot 1997: L’Art et les Enchères en France (Paris: Compagnie des Commissaires-Priseurs, 1997), 24, (repro.).
Filippo Maria Ferro, “Tanzio da Varallo. Catalogo critico dei dipinti e dei disegni,” De Valle Siccida 1 (1999), 102.
Francesco Frangi, “Itinerario di Tanzio da Varallo,” in Percorsi caravaggeschi tra Roma e Piemonte, ed. Giovanni Romano (Turin: Fondazione CRT, 1999), 144.
Marco Bona Castellotti, Tanzio da Varallo: Realismo fervore e contemplazione in un pittore del Seicento, exh. cat. (Milan: Federico Motta, 2000), pp. 105, 107, no. 18, (repro.).
Andrea Bayer, ed., Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004), 194-195, (repro.).
Paola Pariset, “’Un Rinascimento parallelo’: Roma, Mina Gregori ieri mattina ha spiegato la ‘sua mostra,” Cultura & Spettacoli (February 12, 2004): unpaginated.
