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3003

Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi

1502 – Florence – 1567

The payment of the workers in the Lord's vineyard, so-called parable of the workers in the vineyard. Circa 1528

Oil on poplar. 55 x 71 cm (21 ⅝ x 28 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi. The payment of the workers in the Lord's vineyard, so-called parable of the workers in the vineyard. Circa 1528.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 89,300

 

- 134,000

Sold for:

212,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

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

Information

Oil on poplar. 55 x 71 cm (21 ⅝ x 28 in.). On the reverse a marking stamp of the panel maker: Florentine coat of arms / In black ink: parabola du Vigneron D André del Sarto / a seal of the Russian-Baltic Mordwinow family dating from the 18th century. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Hermann Voss, Berlin, dated 9 March 1929, which states "nur Jacopo Pontormo als Urheber in Frage [kommend]" (in the original). In a 19th century frame after a 17th century Bologna example (85 x 101 cm). Framed

Comparable image: drawing after Andrea del Sarto: Die Bezahlung der Arbeiter im Weinberg, chalk and pen on paper, 54 x 40 cm, Albertina Vienna, inv. no. 14184.

Related literature: F. Baldassari, in: La bella maniera in Toscana. Dipinti dalla collezione Luzzetti e altre raccolte private, catalogo della mostra a cura di F. Berti, G. Luzzetti, Florence, 2008, p. 57.

We would like to thank Andrea De Marchi, University of Florence, for confirming the attribution..

Collection of the Russian admiral Nikolai Semjonowitsch Mordwinow (1754–1845), St. Petersburg (?) / collection Haas / 1929 collection Kurt Rohde, Berlin / 1938–43 deposited with Elisabeth Berbig, Dresden / collection Elisabeth Rohde, Berlin.

Source, collection Rohde-Hinze: inventory list of pictures (1950) no. 89 (1929), previous owner "Haas“, 1.250 RM / book inventory no. 309, 1.250 RM, as "Italiener, Schule Pontormo“

Ursula Schlegel: Tafelbilder des Cinquecento Fiorentino in Berlin Privatbesitz, in: Pantheon. Internationale Zeitschrift for Kunst, vol. XXI. (January/ February 1963), p. 39–46, p. 42f., ill. 7 (as Pierfrancesco Toschi) / catalogue of the Kunst- und Antiquitätenmesse, Munich 1957, p. 70 (as Pontormo - Toschi)