About the Artwork
Saint Matthew and Saint Sebastian
ca. 1499
Cristoforo Caselli
ca. 1460-1521
Italian
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Tempera on wood panel
Unframed: 39 1/4 × 18 3/4 inches (99.7 × 47.6 cm) Framed: 48 3/4 × 27 5/16 × 3 1/2 inches (123.8 × 69.4 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
26.113
Public Domain
Markings
On back: an old label with the number "Lb Nr. 34", and a French customs stamp.
Label, on verso: Lb Nr. 34 Stamp, on verso: [French customs stamp]
Provenance
by 1871, Countess Noli (Bergamo, Italy);by 1897, Benigno Crespi (Bergamo, Italy);
by 1900, Count Albani (Bergamo, Italy);
by 1900, until 1914, Cristoforo Crespi (Milan, Italy);
June 4, 1914, sold by (Galerie Petit/Galerie Crespi, Paris, France) lot 53;
Marcelle Nicolle (Paris, France);
1920, Heilbruth (Copenhagen, Denmark);
(R. Trotti, Paris, France);
until 1926, (Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, Germany);
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Crowe, J.A. and G.B. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy. London, 1871, vol. 2, p. 542, note 3. [as by Francesco da Santa Croce; collection Countess Noli, Bergamo; cited as St. Sebastian and a saint with a book.]
Frizzoni, G. L'Arte in Bergamo e l'Accademia Carrara. Bergamo, 1897, pp. 20-21. [in collection of Benigno Crespi, Bergamo.]
Venturi, A. La Galeria Crespi in Milano. Milan, 1900, p. 161; p. 162 (ill.). [as Girolamo da Santa Croce.]
Crowe, J.A. and G.B. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century, ed. T. Borenius. London, 1912, vol. 3, p. 443, note 1. [as by Francesco Rizzi; erroneously cited as in collecton of Contessa Noli, Bergamo.]
Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings. Exh. cat., Danish Museum of Fine Arts. Copenhagen, 1920, cat. 16. [as Girolamo da Santa Croce; collection Marcelle Nicolle; cat. organized by Karl Madsen.]
Heil, W. "Some recently acquired pictures of the Venetian School." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 5 (1926-1927): pp. 50-53, pp. 51-52 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 28 (ill.).
Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 136. [as by Caselli da Parma.]
Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e del loro opere. Milan, 1936, p. 118.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 22, no. 28.
Heinemann, F. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani. Venice, 1962, vol. 1, p. 99, cat. S89 (3); vol. 2, pl. 292. [as by Caselli.]
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 22.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 48.
I pittori bergamaschi, vol. 2. Bergamo, 1976, pp. 42-43, no. 24.
Godi, G. Antichità viva 16 (January-February 1977): p. 59.
Tempestini, A. Dizionario biografico degli italiani 21. Rome, 1978, pp. 327-328.
Rossi, F. Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Catalogo dei Dipinti. Bergamo, 1979, p. 73.
Lucco, M., ed. La pittura nel Veneto: Il Quattrocento, vol. 2. 1990, p. 469 (cited).
Facchinetti, Simone. "Cristoforo Caselli." Da Bergognone a Tiepolo: Scoperte e restauri in Provincia di Bergamo. 2002, pp. 22-27, 24 (ill.).
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Cristoforo Caselli, Saint Matthew and Saint Sebastian, ca. 1499, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.113.
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