Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr

ca. 1727

Felice Torelli Italian, 1667-1748

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About the Artwork

Title Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr

Artwork Date ca. 1727

Artist Felice Torelli

Life Dates 1667-1748

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on laid paper

Dimensions Unframed: 16 5/16 × 11 inches (41.4 × 27.9 cm) Framed: 19 3/8 × 14 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (49.2 × 36.2 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Randall

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 66.250

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on verso: N 121; AH. 1w Ex. coll. G.B. Inscribed, on verso: Carlo Cignani, Born at Bologna 1628, Died 1719 (in Pilkington), Pupil of Albano Inscribed, on verso: An admirable picture of his advanced [indecipherable word]; Martyrdom of two saints in chiaro scuro Inscribed, on verso: From Lord Hampden's Collection June 1827

Marks Marked, recto, Collector's mark of H. C. Jennings (Lugt no. 2771).

Provenance

collection of Henry Constantine Jennings [1731-1819] (Shiplake and London, England);
April 15, 1778, auction of H. C. Jennings collection at (Christie's, London, England), lot 53;
April 15, 1778, purchased by John Trevor, Viscount Hampden [1748-1824] (England);
June 27-29, 1827, auction of Hampden collection at (Sotheby's, London, England), lot 46.
private collection (Vienna, Austria);
ca. early 1940s, Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Randall (Montréal, Québec, Canada);
1966-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Miller, D. "Felice Torelli, Pittore Bolognese," Bolletino d'Arte, vol. 49 (January-March 1964): pp. 54-66, (fig. 16).

Miller, D. "Reflections on Bolognese Painting, 1650-1800," Burlington Magazine, vol. 121, no. 917 (August 1979): p. 525, (fig. 68).

Bean, J. & W. Griswold. Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1990, p. 267, cat. 265 [cites DIA picture in relation to similar sketch owned by Met].

Roli, R. Disegni emiliani del Sei-Settecento. Come nascono i dipinti. Exh. cat., ?. Milan, 1991, pp. 213, 215 [by D. Benati].

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 206-7, cat. no. 65 [entry by D. Miller; edited by A. Derstine].

Graziani, I. La bottega dei Torelli: Da Bologna alla Russia di Caterina la Grande. Bologna, 2005, cat. no. 40, pp. 201-2, (repr.) p. 201.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 99.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Felice Torelli, Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr, ca. 1727, oil on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Randall, 66.250.