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Matteo Civitali

Saint Sebastian, c. 1492

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 5

Medium

painted terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 65.3 x 17.7 x 9.7 cm (25 11/16 x 6 15/16 x 3 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.76

Artists / Makers

Matteo Civitali (artist) Lucchese, 1436 - 1501

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Provenance

Eugène Piot [1812-1890], Paris; Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1940 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 48.

Associated Names

Dreyfus, Gustave
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Piot, Eugène
Timbal, Louis-Charles

Exhibition History

1932: Sculpture and Medals of the Renaissance from the Dreyfus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932.

1938: Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 78, repro.

2004: Matteo Civitali e il suo Tempo: Pittori, scultori e orafi a Lucca nel tardo Quattrocento , Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca, 2004, no. 3.8 and pp. 372-373, repro.

Bibliography

1886: Yriarte, Charles. Matteo Civitali, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris, 1886: 58.

1907: Schottmüller, Frida. "Matteo Civitali. " In Thieme-Becker. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 7(1912):23-28.

1907: Vitry, Paul. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus: I. - La Sculpture." Les Arts 72 (December 1907): repro. 18, 26.

1909: Fabriczy, Cornelius von. “Kritisches Verzeichnis toskanischer Holz- und Tonstatuen bis zum Beginn des Cinquecento.” Jahrbuch der königlich preuszischen Kunstsammlungen 30 (beiheft; 1909):49, no. 195.

1930: Dreyfus Collection. Certain of the Sculptures from the collection of M. Gustave Dreyfus, Paris, which was acquired in its Entirety from the Executors of his Estate in MDCCCCXXX by Sir Joseph Duveen, Bart. [with photos by Clarence Kennedy]. Florence, 1930: repro. XVIII [issued in variant editions, not all plates numbered the same in each].

1932: Rowlandson, Benjamin, Jr. "The Dreyfus Collection. A Review of the Exhibition." Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum 1 (March 1932): 56.

1934: Meli, Filippo. L’Arte di Matteo Civitali. Lucca, 1934: fig. 12.

1938: Ragghianti, Carlo. "La Mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit (U.S.A.)." Critica d'Arte 3:4–6 (fasc. 16–18) (August–December 1938): 170-183, esp. 182, repro. pl. 148, fig. 62.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 219-220, no. A-51.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 226.

1943: Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 283-304, esp. 299, fig. 14.

1944: Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 154-156.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 190, repro.

1946: Eggen, J. B. “La galerie nationale d’art, Washington.” Mouseion 57/58, nos. 3-4 (1946): 98.

1949: Galassi, Guiseppe. La scultura fiorentina del quattrocento. Milan, 1949: 178, 255 n. 22, repro. pl. 224.

1949: Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 178, note 33, repro. 109-110.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 415, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 148.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 131, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 48.

1978: Negri Arnoldi, Francesco. “Matteo Civitali scultore lucchese.” In Egemonia fiorentina ed autonomie locali nella Toscana nord-ocidentale del Primo Rinascimento. Atti del convegno. Pistoia, 1975. Pistoia, 1978: 255-275, esp. 263.

1988: Filieri, Maria Teresa. "Edicole sacre nel XV secolo." In Immagini di devozione a Lucca. Exh. cat., Complesso monumentale di San Micheletto, Lucca, 1988: 14.

1990: Luchs, Alison. "Duveen, the Dreyfus Collection, and the Treatment of Italian Renaissance Sculpture: Examples from the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990):34, 36, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 45, repro.

1995: Harms, Martina. Matteo Civitali. Bildhauer der Frührenaissance in Lucca. Münster, 1995: 170-173, 245-246, n. 451-457; repro. fig. 68.

2001: Pisani, Linda. “In margine a Matteo Civitali. Indagini sulla scultura a Lucca nella seconda metà del XV secolo.” In Max Seidel and Romano Silva, eds. Lucca città d’arte e I suoi archive. Opere d’arte e testimonianze documentarie dal Medioevo al Novecento. Collana del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 5 (2000). Venice 2001: 200-232, esp. 230 n. 7.

2005: Pisani, Linda. “Matteo Civitali: riflessioni in margine a una mostra." Arte Cristiana 93 (2005): 99-110, esp. 108 n. 19.