About the Artwork
Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God
ca. between 1695 and 1700
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro
1678-1745
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 71 5/8 × 82 3/8 inches (182 × 209.3 cm) Framed: 80 1/2 × 91 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (204.5 × 231.5 × 13 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, Yntema Fund, funds from the Gustava D. Anderson Estate, Leslie H. Green Fund, Nelson A. Rockefeller Fund, Mrs. Russell A. Alger Fund, C. Henry Buhl II Fund, Stella Fleischman Memorial Fund, Pearl and Howard Knight Fund, Edna Burian Skelton Fund, Miscellaneous Memorials Fund, James S. Whitcomb Fund, Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, Harold R. Roehm Fund and funds from the Wunsch Foundation
65.9
Public Domain
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Provenance
private collection (Monaco or southern France
ca. 1960, sold (art market, Nice, France)
private collection (Italy)
1963, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (London, England)
October 2, 1965, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paintings by Old Masters. Sales cat., P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Ltd. London, 1964, cat. 26, pl. XIII. [as Fr. Solimena.]
Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, pp. 148-149, cat. 165 (ill.).
Bologna, F. "Solimena's Solomon Worshipping the Pagan Gods in Detroit." Art Quarterly 36, no. 1 (1968): pp. 35-62 (ill.).
Art Voices 4, no. 2 (Spring 1965): p. 104, (ill.) cat. 26, pl. XIII. [as Fr. Solimena.]
Spinosa, N. La pittura napoletana da Carlo a Ferdinando IV di Borbone. Naples, probably 1971-1972, p. 532, note 13.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 101 (ill.).
Antonov, V. "Appunti su alcuni quadri italiani del sei e settecento nel museo d'arte straniera di Riga." Antichità viva 10, no. 6 (1971): p. 5.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 190.
Pigler, A. Barockthemen; eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Budapest, 1956, vol. 1, p. 172.
Urrea Fernandez, J. La pintura italiana del siglio XVIII en Espana. Valladolid, 1977, p. 368.
Civilta del ‘700 a Napoli, 1734-1799. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Naples, 1979/1980, vol. 1, p. 162.
Pittura sacra a Napoli nel '700. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Naples, 1980, p. 86.
The Golden Age of Naples: Art and Civilization under the Bourbons, 1734-1805. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Art Institute of Chicago. Detroit and Chicago, 1981, vol. 1, p. 154. [suggests that former early work by Vaccaro.]
Spinosa, N. Pittura napoletana del ‘600. Milan, 1984 (fig. 861).
Civiltà del seicento a Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte and Museo Pignatelli. Exh. cat. Naples, 1984, pp. 494-495.
Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): p. 21. [notice of reattribution.]
La collezione della Cassa di Risparmio di Calabria e di Lucania. Exh. cat., Convento di San Francesco. Cosenza, 1986, p. 78.
Spinosa, N. Pittura napoletana del Settecento: dal Barocco al Rococo. Naples, 1986, vol. 1, p. 77, 147, cat. 192; vol. 2, color pl. 34.
A Taste for Angels, Neapolitan Painting in North America 1650-1750. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 1987, p. 314.
Pavone, M.A. Pittori napoletani del primo settecento. Naples, 1997, p. 134.
Collectanea 1700-1800. Exh. cat., Matthiesen and Stair Sainty Matthiesen. London and New York, 1999, p. 88.
Vodret, R., ed. Capolavori del seicento e del settecento della collezione Banca Carime. Milan, 2003, p. 52, no. 19.
Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 11 (note 16), 212-213, cat. no. 67.
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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Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Solomon Worshiping a Pagan God, ca. between 1695 and 1700, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund, Yntema Fund, et al., 65.9.
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