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Attributed to Antonio de Michele(Active Naples, mid 17th Century)An architectural capriccio with The Denial of Saint Peter; and An architectural capriccio of Christ and the Adultress (2)
5 July 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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Attributed to Antonio de Michele (Active Naples, mid 17th Century)
An architectural capriccio with The Denial of Saint Peter; and An architectural capriccio of Christ and the Adultress
a pair, oil on canvas
75.5 x 102cm (29 3/4 x 40 3/16in). (2)
a pair, oil on canvas
75.5 x 102cm (29 3/4 x 40 3/16in). (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by Sir William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) for 11 Carlton House Terrace, London, or Hawarden Castle, and thence by descent through the family
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 April 2008, lot 99 (as Attributed to Pseudo-Codazzi)
Literature
G. Sestieri, Il Capriccio architettonico in Italia nel XVII e XVIII secolo, Rome, 2015, vol. II, pp. 302-304
At the time of the 2008 sale, the present work was given to the anonymous Pseudo-Codazzi, an artist whose works relate to Niccolò Codazzi's Neapolitan paintings of the 1640s but which are a little coarser in quality. These capricci are often populated with figures close in style to those of Domenico Gargiulo. David Marshall has recently tentatively suggested that this 'Pseudo-Codazzi' may in fact be identified as an Antonio di Michele, on the basis of a capriccio offered at the Dorotheum, Vienna, on 25 April 2017, lot 103, which was signed with initials 'ADM' and dated 1647.
Very little is known of Antonio di Michele although his works are mentioned in Neapolitan inventories of the mid-late 17th century. Three prospettive are described in the inventory of Ettore Capecelatro, Marchese di Torella in 1659 as by Tonno [i.e.Antonio] di Michele e Gargiulo. Two further paintings, also given to di Michele and Gargiulo, appear in the inventory of 1679 of Onofrio de Palma, Consigliere di S. Chiara and one other is listed as in the collection of Pompilio Gagliano in 1699.