Object details
Object number
P26e17
Creator(s)
Vincenzo di Biagio Catena
(about 1470 - 1531, Venice)
Title
Christ Delivering the Keys of Heaven to Saint Peter
Date
about 1521-1525
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
82.9 x 135.3 cm (32 5/8 x 53 1/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Label (on back): London, Royal Academy, Old Masters, 1894, no. 151
Label (on front of frame, lower left): 31
Provenance
Collection of William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (1825–1895), Burghley House, Northamptonshire, England by 1871.
Purchased by Dr. Jean Paul Richter (1847–1937), art dealer and scholar, London, at the Marquis of Exeter sale, Christie’s, London on 9 June 1888 for £68, lot 307.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Jean Paul Richter on 27 April 1895 for £400 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Commentary
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Bibliography
Bernard Berenson. "Les Peintures Italiennes de New York et de Boston." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1896), p. 207, ill.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 21.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 88-91.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 219.
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 56.
Giles Robertson. Vincenzo Catena (Edinburgh, 1954), pp. 29, 35, 65-66, no. 43, pl. 38.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 53-54.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 41, 269.
Erica E. Hirshler. "Mrs. Gardner's Rival: Susan Cornelia Warren and her Art Collection." Fenway Court (1988), p. 50.
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000).
Gallery
Titian Room
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