Giovan Francesco Penni

(Firenze, 1488 - Napoli, 1528)

Giovan Francesco Penni

(Firenze, 1488 - Napoli, 1528)

THE ALLEGORY OF GOOD HOPE

oil on panel, 31x14 cm

on the reverse, two paper label: “OLD PICTURES /AND/ FAMILY PORTRAITS/ F[…] TION OF/ THE HOPE HEIRLOOMS”; “On FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1917”

ALLEGORIA DELLA BUONA SPERANZA

olio su tavola, cm 31x14

al retro, due cartellini cartacei: “OLD PICTURES /AND/ FAMILY PORTRAITS/ F[…] TION OF/ THE HOPE HEIRLOOMS”; “On FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1917”

Provenance

Rome, Palazzo Borghese di Ripetta, Scipione Borghese Collection (1577-1633)

Rome, Villa Borghese (1650)

London, William Young Ottley Collection (1798-1799)

London, William Beckford eand Walsh Porter Collection

London, Christie's, 1810

London, Thomas Hope Collection (1811)

London, Lord Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope Collection (1866-1941)

London, Christie's, 20 July 1917, lot. 112

London, Christie's, Old Master Pictures, 22 April 2005, lot. 62

Literature

G. Manilli, Villa Borghese fuori di Porta Pinciana, Rome 1650, p. 111;

F. W. B. Von Ramdohr, Ueber Mahlerei Und Bildhauerarbeit. In Rim, Fur Liebhaber Des Schonen In Der Kunst, I, 1787, p. 292;

J. D. Passavant, Raphael d'Urbin et son père Giovanni Santi, II, 1860, p. 352;

P. Della Pergola, L'inventario Borghese del 1693, 2, in "Arte Antica e Moderna", 1964, p. 461, no. 392;

R. Wiecker, Wilhelm Heinses Beschreibung römischer Kunstschätze, Kopenhagen 1977, p. 34;

S. Béguin, A propos d'un dessin de l'Ermitage, in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Federico Zeri, 1, edited by F. Porzio, M. Natale, Milan 1984, p. 407-411;

M. Minozzi, Note sui dipinti di Raffaello nella collezione Borghese, in Raffaello da Firenze a Roma. Exhibition catalogue, edited by A. Coliva, (Rome, Galleria Borghese, 19 May - 27 August 2006), Rome 2006, pp. 104-105;

D. Love, Gianfrancesco Penni. Designs for overlooked panel paintings, in Late Raphael, edited by M. Faromir, Madrid 2013, pp. 136-149;

M. Minozzi, in Rinascimento segreto. Exhibition catalogue, (Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, 13 April - 1° September 2017), Santarcangelo di Romagna 2017, pp. 84-85.