St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy before a Cherub with a Violin

between 1628 and 1630

Gioacchino Assereto Italian, 1600 - 1650

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy before a Cherub with a Violin

Artwork Date between 1628 and 1630

Artist Gioacchino Assereto

Life Dates 1600 - 1650

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 canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 58 1/16 × 44 1/4 inches (147.4 × 112.4 cm) Framed: 68 1/2 × 55 × 3 inches (174 × 139.7 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from A. Alfred Taubman, General Membership Fund; gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hills, James E. Scripps, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Howard Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bell Moran, Miss Caroline A. Godfroy, and City of Detroit, by exchange

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. 1990.10

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Provenance

(Colnaghi & Co., London, England and New York, New York, USA);
1990-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Marcenaro, C. & I.M. Botto. Dipinti genovese dal XVII al XVIII secolo. Turin, 1964, (pl. xvii). [DIA picture not cited]

Mostra dei pittori genovesi a Genova nel '600 e nel '700.' Exh. cat., Palazzo Bianco. Genoa, 1969, pp. 116, no. 46. [discusses Genoa version, no mention of DIA picture]

Castelnovi, G.V. "La pittura nella prima metà del Seicento dall'Ansaldo a Orazio de Ferrari." La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria dal Seceinto al primo Novecento. Vol. 2. Genova, 1975, pp. 21, 61, 156.

Pesenti, F.R. La pittura in Liguria. artisti del primo seicento. Genoa, 1986, p. 371 (fig. 354).

Pagano, P & M.C. Galassi. La pittura del '600 a Genova. Milan, 1988 (fig. 33).

"Gioacchini Asserto." Nàpols i al Barroc Mediterrani (1990): pp. 116-117. [on Genova version, DIA picture not cited]

Trezzani, L. "A come Assereto. Alcuni inediti del pittore genovese." Scritti in onore di Giuliano Briganti. Milan, 1990, pp. 182, 184, 186-188, no. 9 (fig. 4).

Master Paintings 1350-1800. Exh. cat., Colnaghi. New York, 1989, pp. 44, 119, no. 6 (ill.).

Selected Baroque Paintings from Italian Banks. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 44-46 (ill.). [Genova version, no mention of DIA version]

Bulletin of the DIA 66 no. 2/3: Annual Report (1990): p. 16 (fig. 9).

Dipinti lombardi del primo seicento dalle civiche collezioni genovesi, Genova. Exh. cat., Palazzo Bianco. Genova, 1992, pp. 62-63.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting, The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp, 11, 24-25, no. 7.

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, Texas, 2017, p. 102.

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Gioacchino Assereto, St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy before a Cherub with a Violin, between 1628 and 1630, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from A. Alfred Taubman, General Membership Fund; et al., 1990.10.