ORAZIO SAMACCHINI (1532–1577)
The Flight of Daedalus and Icarus
Provenance
J. Richardson Sen. (1667 – 1745), L.2183;
C. Rogers, L.624;
His sale, London, Th. Philipe, 15 – 23 April 1799, part of lot 593 (as 'Francesco Salviati, Rebecca at the Well, bistre, heightened and Daedelus and Icarus, black chalk, heightened, both on blue paper');
V. Ezekiel (Sotheby & Co.);
From whom acquired by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, on 1 February 1956 (originally as Francesco Salviati, but the attribution was later changed to Camillo Procaccini);
From whom acquired by X. L. Givaudan, Geneva, on 31 May 1956;
By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 3 July 2007, lot 28 (as Orazio Samacchini), where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A. W. A. Boschloo, Il fregio dipinto a Bologna da Nicolo dell’Abate ai Carracci, Bologna 1984, p. 78;
J. Winkelmann, ‘Orazio Samacchini’, in Pittura Bolognese del ’500, (ed.) V. Fortunati Pietrantonio, Bologna 1986, vol. II, p. 643;
T. Mullaly, ‘Art in Bologna’, Apollo, vol. 136, no. 366, August 1992, pp. 124-5;
M. Faetti, in Un siècle de dessin à Bologne: 1480-1580. De la Renaissance à la réforme tridentine, exh. cat., Paris 2001, p. 170, under cat. no. 50;
M. Faetti, Il Cinquecento a Bologna. Disegni dal Louvre e dipinti a confronto, exh. cat., Bologna 2002, pp. 300 and 304, under cat. nos. 82 and 84.
Exhibitions / Fairs
London, P. & D. Colnaghi, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 10 May – 14 June 1956, no. 15 (as Francesco Salviati);
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, Drawing in Bologna 1500 – 1600, 18 June – 31 August 1992, no. 57.
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