{"id":5959,"date":"2012-06-22T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=5959"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T19:03:18","slug":"rp-16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/rp-16\/","title":{"rendered":"RP.16 Portrait of a Knight of St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RP.16 Portrait of a Knight of St. John<\/p><\/div>\n

London, National Gallery, no. 932.<\/p>\n

Poplar panel, 96.8 x 76.2.<\/p>\n

Fig.RP.16<\/a><\/p>\n

PROVENANCE (from Gould, 1975): London, Christie\u2019s, Louis Philippe sale, 6 May 1853, lot 81, as Sebastiano del Piombo, bought by Pearce.\u00a0 Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876.<\/p>\n

Franklin, \u201cPortrait,\u201d 1989, 839-840, and 1994, 215, 291, n. 22, stated that in 1838 the picture was in Louis Philippe\u2019s Spanish Gallery in the Louvre and that it can be assumed that it came from Spain in the mid 1830s (Notice des tableaux de la Galerie espagnole expos\u00e9s dans les salles du Mus\u00e9e Royal au Louvre<\/em>, Paris, 1838, 112, no. 438, and the introduction to the French edition of the catalogue of the king\u2019s pictures at the sale, Christie\u2019s, 6 May 1853).<\/p>\n

On the poor condition of this picture, see below, Gould, 1975; Franklin, \u201cPortrait,\u201d 1989; and Franklin, 1994.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

National Gallery Illustrations. Italian Schools<\/em>, London, 1937, 176, as Italian School, Sixteenth Century.<\/p>\n

Gould, 1975, Florentine School (formerly Italian School, XVI century), by \u201csome sub-Sarto painter… immediately before the Mannerist phase,\u201d and from the costume, around 1520; Gould reported that a verbal attribution to Rosso had been made by F. Zeri.<\/p>\n

Federico Zeri, \u201cUn\u2019ipotesi per il Rosso Fiorentino,\u201d Diario di Lavoro 2<\/em>, Turin, 1976, 88-91, Fig. 90, as perhaps by Rosso, around 1525 in Rome.<\/p>\n

Franklin, \u201cPortrait,\u201d 1989, with Color Pl., as Rosso, in the early 1520s.<\/p>\n

Ciardi and Mugnaini, 1991, 24, 82-83, no. 12, with Color Pl., as Rosso, 1518-1525.<\/p>\n

Franklin, 1994, 215-216, 221, 219, Color Pl. 192, as by Rosso, early 1520s and not much after 1522 or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remain perplexed that this portrait was ever attributed to Rosso.\u00a0 The whole conception of the image, with the figure and his costume so largely defined in relation to receding space and so little in relation to the picture plane, is wholly unlike Rosso\u2019s manner of pictorial composition and design.\u00a0 There is no analogy in Rosso\u2019s art for the definition of the figure\u2019s hat set like a large sculptural form around and above the head.\u00a0 The chiaroscural continuousness of the image is also wholly unlike anything found in Rosso\u2019s art.<\/p>\n

It is interesting that the picture was once attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo, and that Zeri saw in it the influence of his art and of Michelangelo\u2019s.\u00a0 Zeri also thought it was done in Rome.\u00a0 I do not think the picture is Florentine.\u00a0 It brings to mind Polidoro da Caravaggio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, National Gallery, no. 932. Poplar panel, 96.8 x 76.2. Fig.RP.16 PROVENANCE (from Gould, 1975): London, Christie\u2019s, Louis Philippe sale, 6 May 1853, lot 81, as Sebastiano del Piombo, bought by Pearce.\u00a0 Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876. Franklin, \u201cPortrait,\u201d 1989, 839-840, and 1994, 215, 291, n. 22, stated that in 1838 the picture was in Louis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5959","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5959\/revisions\/7965"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}