Bartolomeo Schedoni

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Stockholms Auktionsverket / Dec 4, 2012
Estimate:€3,498.02 - €4,664.02
Price:€2,541.00

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Bartolomeo Schedoni - The Holy Family

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Auction: Christie's - Jun 5, 2013- New York

Lot number: 17
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Bartolomeo Schedoni (Formigine 1578-1615 Parma) The Holy Family with the young Saint John the Baptist oil on panel 11½ x 9¾ in. (29.2 x 24.7 cm.) Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 6 July 1993, lot 262, as 'Studio of Bartolomeo Schedoni', where acquired by the present owner. PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection, 28 May-12 September 2010, no. 41 (entry by J. Marciari). Bartolomeo Schedoni's depictions of the Holy Family were among his most popular works, and his interpretation of the theme is known in many variants, each of which exists in a number of versions. The present variant, perhaps the artist's best-known, shows the young St. John the Baptist at left with Joseph in the background at right, just behind the Madonna. In this intimate and moving devotional image, the Madonna gently embraces the infant Christ, her forehead pressed tenderly to his. Joseph's attentive nearness and St. John's eager, childlike expression add to the warmth and humanity of the scene. Born in Modena in 1578, Bartolomeo Schedoni displayed impressive artistic talent from a young age, and in 1595 was sent by Ranuccio Farnese, the Duke of Parma, to Rome, where he studied with Federico Zuccaro. This Roman experience, however, was brief, and seems to have had a negligible impact on Schedoni's style, which was to remain firmly rooted in the artistic traditions of his native Emilia, as exemplified by the work of Correggio, Parmigianino, Dosso Dossi, and especially the Carracci reform of the 1580s. The remainder of Schedoni's career was spent in Emilia, where he became a favored painter at the Este court in Modena and later the Farnese court in Parma, for which he executed such important works as The Entombment and The Three Marys at the Tomb (both Parma, Galleria Nazionale, invs. 120, 133). Seemingly at odds with his many serene and warmly human depictions of the Holy Family, Schedoni's life was marked by gambling, violence and several imprisonments, and was cut short in 1615, possibly by suicide. Although the present composition is known in numerous versions, many of which were produced in the artist's workshop, Schedoni's authorship of this picture was first recognized by Dwight Miller, who noted that the handling of the figure of St. John the Baptist suggests the freehand confidence of the master himself. He also observed that while most known examples of the composition are on canvas, many of the best versions - in particular, those executed by Schedoni himself rather than by workshop assistants - are on panel (written communication, 15 September 1993). The present image is painted on a fruitwood panel, as is the Holy Family in the National Gallery, London (inv. NG6644), another work universally accepted as autograph. Among other versions assigned to the master himself are those preserved in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (inv. 4058) and the Museo Civico, Modena (see E. Negro and N. Roio, Bartolomeo Schedoni: 1578-1615, Modena, 2000, p. 83 under no. 27). John Marciari has observed that the present panel shows a "more painterly application of paint, a lighting scheme that is dramatic but without the preternatural brightness of the late works, and a... tendency for a softer focus" than is seen in the later pictures, which are characterized by crisper, more angular forms and starkly intense illumination. Consequently, he dates the work to c. 1605, before the final phase of the artist's career, at a time when Schedoni would have been in the employ of Cesare d'Este in Modena (J. Marciari, op. cit. p. 136).