0621
Jacopo Vignali
(Pratoveccio 1592 - 1664 Florenz)
„Rinaldo and Armida“
1634
oil on canvas
202.5 × 163 cm
signed and dated lower right: IAC. VIGNALI / F.F. 1634
Provenance
probably Benedetto Dragomanni, Florence;
probably English private collection in the 19th century (according to the label on the reverse by James Bourlet & Sons, picture framing, London, no. 52922);
Castle Mittersill/ Pinzgau;
auction of "Gegenständen aus Schloss Mittersill" Dorotheum, Vienna, 16th October 1936, lot 199 (as Giovanni Biliverti "Diana und Endymion");
auction Dorotheum, Vienna, 26th May 1937, lot 370 (as Giovanni Biliverti "Diana und Endymion");
private collection, Austria
Literature
probably S. B. Bartolozzi, Vita di Jacopo Vignali pittor fiorentino, Florence 1753, p. XX
Estimate: € 35.000 - 70.000
Result: € 64.000 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.
We are grateful to Francesca Baldassari, who examined the present painting in original, for identifying it as a work by Jacopo Vignali and proposing the date 1633–35. During the restoration quite recently the signature and date became visible and confirmed the proposed attribution. In her detailed study (8th April 2017) Francesca Baldassari proposed to identify the painting as one of two „poetici concetti“, which are mentioned by Sebastiano Benedetto Bartolozzi in his biography on the artist. According to this source Vignali has executed them for the Florentine patron Benedetto Dragomanni (see S. B. Bartolozzi, Vita di Jacopo Vignali pittor fiorentino, Florenz 1753, S. XX). She also refers to a drawing by Jacopo Vignali, which came to light at the art market in 2005 and is showing exactly the same composition (see Rinaldo and Armida, 232 x 353 mm, black and white chalk on grey cardboard, Christie’s, Paris, 16th December 2005, Lot 16). Francesca Baldassari is planning to publish the present painting in a ‚Festschrift’ presumably in September 2018.