Giulio Cesare Procaccini

(Italy 30 May 1574–14 Nov 1625)

Title

The Lowering of the Cross with Sts Mary Magdalene, Augustine, Jerome and Angels

Year

circa 1618

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas

Dimensions

238.0 x 171.7cm

Credit

Purchased with funds from the estate of Mr Walter Hartwig through the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation 2005

Accession number

249.2005

Location

15th–19th c European art

Provenance (5)

The Matthiesen Gallery (England), London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Matthiesen Gallery 2005

Private Collection, Jersey/Channel Islands

The Matthiesen Gallery (England), London/England, 1981

Private Collection

Giovanni Carlo Doria (Italy, b.1576, d.1625), Genoa/Italy, The work was painted c.1618, probably for Procaccini’s Genoese patron Giovanni Carlo Doria.

Bibliography (8)

Claire Armstrong (Editor), Art and Australia (Vol. 43, No. 1) Sep 2005-Nov 2005, Paddington, Sep 2005-Nov 2005, (illus.).

Hugh Brigstocke, Procaccini in America 2002, New York, 2002, 41, 160 (illus.).

Hugh Brigstocke, Revue de l'Art, no. 48 1980, 'G.C.Procaccini et D. Crespi: nouvelles découvertes', pg.36, 1980, 36. fig. 17

Hugh Brigstocke, Revue de l'Art, no. 85 1989, 'Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625): ses attaches génoises et quelques autres faits nouveaux', pg.52, 1989, 52.

M. Bona Castellotti, La pittura Lombarda del '600, Milan, 1985. pl. 492

Marco Rosci, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, 1993, 108.

The Matthiesen Gallery, 2001, an art odyssey: Classicism, Mannerism, Caravaggism and Baroque 2001, London, 2001, 204-214, (colour illus.). cat.no. 23

The Matthiesen Gallery, Important Italian Baroque paintings 1981, 1981, 54-57, (colour illus.). cat.no. 20

Exhibition history (2)

Important Italian Baroque paintings, The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1981–1981

2001, an art odyssey: Classicism, Mannerism, Caravaggism and Baroque, The Matthiesen Gallery, London, 2001–2001