Skip to content
Go to Grisebach homepage

Lot

3008

Workshop of Luca Giordano

1643 – Naples – 1705

The marriage of Mary and Joseph in the temple. Shortly before 1690

Oil on canvas. 119 x 139 cm (46 ⅞ x 54 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Workshop of Luca Giordano. The marriage of Mary and Joseph in the temple. Shortly before 1690.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 12,000

USD 8,930

 

- 13,400

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

The Rohde-Hinze Collection 1 – Old Masters, Friday, 03.07.2015

Information

Oil on canvas. 119 x 139 cm (46 ⅞ x 54 ¾ in.). Stamped figures on the stretcher: 4OSV / Inscription in pencil on the stretcher: Von Lissa / also: 25K / in red chalk: B6. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Hermann Voss, Berlin, dated 5 August 1925, in which described as "eine ganz im Stil des Luca Giordano gehaltene Arbeit... Des Neapolitaner Meisters Paolo de Matteis“ (in the original). Framed

Comparable work: Luca Giordano: Marriage of Mary, oil on canvas, 115 x 135 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, picture gallery, inv. no. M.I.868. Related literature: Oreste Ferrari: Les Scènes de la vie de la Vierge de Luca Giordano, in: La Revue des Musées de France. Revue du Louvre, no. 4 (October 2004), p. 61–66 / Stéphane Loire: Peintures italiennes du XVIIe siècle du musée du Louvre, Florence, Gênes, Lombardie, Naples, Rome et Venise, Paris 2006, p. 172–176. We would like to thank Giuseppe Napoletano, Naples, for the attribution on the basis of photographs..

Possibly collection of the architect Franz Lissa (died 1926), Berlin / 1925 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin (as Paolo de Matteis) / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin