$35,000
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
Auction: June 14, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (69.9 x 59.1cm)
Provenance: M. Nierwenhump, 1833.
Christie's, London, sale of May 10, 1833, lot 33 (as by Giorgione, to Norton).
Captain E. Spencer-Churchill, Northwick Park.
Christie's, London, sale of May 28, 1965, lot 20 (to Brod).
With Brod Gallery, London, 1965.
With Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 1967.
The Collection of Dr. Hilary Koprowski and Dr. Irena Koprowska.
LITERATURE:
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Works of Art, etc. at Northwick Park, Blockley: 1864, cat. no. 61 (as Nicolo Casa).
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; Venetian School, London: 1957, p. 55.
B. Berenson, Pitture Italiani del Rinascimento; La scuola veneta, Florence: 1958, p. 57.
P. Dessy, Giovanni Busi detto Cariani, University of Padua Theses, Padua: 1960-1, p. 158.
A. Ballarin, "Pittura veneziana nei musei de Budapest, Dresda, Praga, Varsavia", Arte Veneta magazine, 22, 1968, p.57.
G. Bolaffi et al., Cariani Giovanni, in Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani, Turin: 1972, p. 60.
R. Pallucchini, F. Rossi, Giovanni Cariani, 0 133, cat. no. 60, fig. 4 .
NOTE:
Cariani was active in Bergamo and Venice, and may have trained with Giorgione (c. 1477-8 -1510) and was strongly influenced by Palma Il Vecchio (c. 1479-1528) and Titian (1485-1576). Bernard Berenson first proposed the attribution to Cariani in 1957. Alessandro Ballarin agreed with Berenson, suggesting a date for this portrait of 1510-15, and referenced the portrait's Giorgionesque character.