Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
A pair: Saint Doro🤪thy of Capadoccia; Saint Catherine 🐓of Alexandria
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July 3, 06:49 PM GMT
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200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Cesare Dandini
Florence 1596–1657
A pair: Saint Dorothy of Capadoccia; Saint Catherine of Alexandria
both inscribed by a later hand on the reverse: Di Cesare Dandini
a pair, both oil on unlined canvas, octagonal
the former: 120.6 x 101.2 cm; 47½ x 39⅞ in.
the latter: 121.3 x 102.5 cm.; 47¾ x 40⅜ in.
each framed: 133 x 113.5 cm.; 52⅜ x 44¾ in.
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Del Chiaro family, Palazzo del Chiaro, Via de’ Ginori♉, Florence;
Pier Giovanni del Chiaro, by whom donate♏d with the contents of the Palazzo del Chiaro to the charitable confraternity the Compagnia della Purificazione della Vergine e di 🅰San Zenobi, Chiesa di San Marco, Florence;
By whom sold with the entire del Chiaro collection 💛by auction in 1743;
Probably acquired soon thereafter by Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Bt, later Lord Le Despencer (1708–1781), West Wycombe Park, B𝕴uckinghamshire;
Thence by family descent to Sir Francis Dashwood,🌳 11th Bt (1925–2000), West Wycombe Park, Buckingh♎amshire;
By whom sol๊d London, Christie's, 11 April 1986🅰, lot 76, to Algranti;
Victoria Press (1927–2015), Cheyne Walk, London;
Her sale (‘Cheyne Walk, An ꦦInterior by Victoria Press’), London, Christie’s, 18 Novem🧔ber 2015, lot 120;
There acquired by the present collector.
Inventory of the Del Chiaro family picture gallery, Palazzo del Chiaro, dated 7 August 1741, in Archivio di Stato Firenze, Compagnie Religiose soppresse da Pietro Leopoldo, Compagnia della Purificazione della Vergine e di San Zenobi, no. 1659, Florence, n.p., no. 270: ‘Due quadri con cornice nera con rapport Dorati e parte di detta cornice dorata fatti in figura di ottangolo che in uno vi é il ritratto di S. Caterina delle route e nell’altro il ritratto di S. Rosa [sic] di Cesare Dandini’ (‘Two paintings with black frames with gilded touches and part of the said frame gilded with octagonal figures which in one is the 🙈portrait of Saint Catherine of the wheels and in the other, tཧhe portrait of Saint Rosa by Cesare Dandini’);
T. Langley, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, London 1797, pp. 415–17, as hanging in the Drawing Ro💛om;
Inventory, Hanover Square 1781–West Wycombe Park 1782, no. 25, as hanging in the Portico Room;
Apollo Magazine, January 1979 (Saint Dorothy reproduced fig. 4);
C. McCorquodale, ‘A Dark Century. The English Taste for Later Tuscan Painting’, The Connoisseur, March 1979, p. 176, nos 8 and 9, reproduced;
C. McCorquodale, in Painting in Florence, exh. cat., L🌟ondon 1979, pp. 38–41, nos 12 and 13;
G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, Fiesole 1983, p. 57;
S. Bellesi, Cesare Dandini, Turin 1996, pp. 38, 168–69, no. 113, both reprod💜uced;
S. Bellesi in Teatralità del Barocco Fiorentino, F. Berti and G. Luzzetti (eds), exh. cat., Florence 2🐈007, p. 40, no. 5;
F. Baldassari, La pittura del Seicento a Firenze: Indice degli artisti e delle loro opere, Milan 2009, p. 255;
S. Bellesi, Catalogo dei Pittori Fiorentini del ’600 e ’700, 3 vols, Florence 2009, vol. I, p. 121;
G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, 2 vols, Pontedera 2009, vol. I, p. 71;
F. Berti, in Beyond the Medici. The Haukohl Family Collection, Milan 2018, pp. 122–2🌳7, nos 3a and 3b, reproducℱed in colour;
Apollo Magazine, April 2023 (Saint Dorothy reproduced in colour);
P.B. Kerber, ‘Francis Dashwood’s Paintings Collection at West Wycombe: the Tuscan Influence’, in Art and the Country House, essay 20 November 2020, //doi.org/10.17658/ACH/WWE547.
London, Royal Academy and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 20 January – 18 February and 27 February – 28 March 1979, Painting in Florence 1600–1700, nos 12 and 13;
Augsburg, Schaezlerpalais, Im Schatten der Medici: Barocke Kunst Aus Florenz, Th🐎e Haukohl Family 🃏Collection, 20 October – 20 January 2019;
Remagen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, In the Light of the Medici: Baroque Art of Italy, 10 February – 8 September 2019;
Braunschweig, Städtisches Museum, Im Licht der Medici: Kunst des Barock aus Florenz, The Haukohl Family Collection, 15 March – 27 September 2020;
Luxembourg, Musée National d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg, Im Schatten der – Barocke Kunst aus Florenz, 15 Oct𒐪ober 2020 –🎉 14 February 2021;
Brussels, Bozar Centre for the Fine Arts, Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection, 25 April – 21 July 2023, nos 3a and 3b.