Saint Paul and Saint James the Elder

ca. 1499

Cristoforo Caselli Italian, ca. 1460-1521

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Saint Paul and Saint James the Elder

Artwork Date ca. 1499

Artist Cristoforo Caselli

Life Dates ca. 1460-1521

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 Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 40 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (102.9 × 47.6 cm) Framed: 48 3/4 × 27 5/16 × 3 1/2 inches (123.8 × 69.4 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 26.112

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Provenance

Count Albani (Bergamo, Italy);
by 1871, Countess Noli (Bergamo, Italy);
by 1897, Benigno Crespi (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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Published References

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.]

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. 163 (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; listed erroneously as still owned by Contessa Noli, Bergamo.]

Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings. Exh. cat., Danish Museum of Fine Arts. Copenhagen, 1920, cat. 17. [as Girolamo da Santa Croce; collection Marcelle Nicolle.]

Berenson, B. "Un possible Antonello da Messina ed uno impossible - II." Dedalo 4 (1923): pp. 99-120, pp. 118-19; (ill.) detail. [As Cristoforo Caselli da Parma; Galleria Crespi.] Reprinted in Three Essays in Method, Oxford, 1926, p. 127.

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. 27 (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. 27.

Heinemann, F. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani. Venice, 1962, vol. 1, p. 99, cat. S89(2); vol. 2, pl. 292.

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. 327-28.

Rossi, F. Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Catalogo dei Dipinti, Bergamo, 1979, p. 73.

Lucco, M., ed. La pittura nel Veneto: Il Quattrocento 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 Paul and Saint James the Elder, ca. 1499, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.112.