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3007

Giovanni Martinelli

Montevarchi 1600 – 1659 Florence

Woman with a book (Allegory of Knowledge). Circa 1640

Oil on canvas. 72,5 x 58 cm (28 ½ x 22 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Giovanni Martinelli. Woman with a book (Allegory of Knowledge). Circa 1640.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 16,700

 

- 22,300

Sold for:

52,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

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

Information

Oil on canvas. 72,5 x 58 cm (28 ½ x 22 ⅞ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Hermann Voss, Berlin, dated 22 March 1929, which describes the work as "ein echtes, charakteristisches Werk des Florentiners Seicentisten Giovanni Martinelli" (in the original). Framed

Related literature: C. D’Afflitto: Giovanni Martinelli, in: Il Seicento Fiorentino, exh. cat. Florence 1986, vol. 3, p. 114-117 / p. Bellesi: I quadri allegorici; in: Giovanni Martinelli da Montevarchi pittore in Firenze, Florence 2011, p. 48–75 / A. Baldinotti, B. Santi, R. Spinelli (eds.): Giovanni Martinelli pittore di Montevarchi. Mastro del Seicento fiorentino, exh. cat., Florence 2011, cat. no. 1.6-1.13, p. 104-124 (Nadia Bastogi). We would like to thank Nadia Bastogi, Florence, for confirming the authenticity on the basis of photographs..

Private collection, Riga / 1929 collection Frieda Hinze, Berlin / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: receipt of Herrn Olin, Riga, 27 March 1929, 1.000 RM / inventory list of pictures (1950) no. 87 (1928), as "Italiener, Martinelli“, previous owner (Hermann ?) "Voss“, 800 RM

Hermann Voss (ed.): Italienische Malerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Wiesbaden, 1935, cat. no. 133 (included in the volume of illustrations)