A Flagellator of Christ, c. 1630s

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G10

Medium

silver

Dimensions

overall: 23.4 x 12.4 x 7.3 cm (9 3/16 x 4 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

1991.124.1

Artists / Makers

Alessandro Algardi (artist) Bolognese-Roman, 1598 - 1654

Image Use

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Provenance

Eugen Gutmann [1840-1925], Berlin, by 1912;[1] Gutmann heirs, Holland;[2] sold on the New York art market c. 1950.[3] (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 June 1989, no. 150); (Ellin Mitchell, New York); purchased 7 June 1991 by NGA.

[1] Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, 1912, no. 170.

[2] This object was sold in 1942 with the Gutmann collection of 225 silver, jewelry and Renaissance objects to the dealers Karl Haberstock and Julius Boehler [See papers of Haberstock Gallery, National Archives RG 260/Box 446, copies NGA curatorial records]. After the war the Gutmann heirs filed a claim for the return of the collection, which was recovered in Starnberg, Germany, and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point. This sculpture was restituted to the Dutch government with others from the Gutmann collection on 8 July 1946. [See Dutch claim #N-3, National Archives RG 260/747; see also Munich property card #16395/33 and Dutch Receipt for Cultural Objects no. 15A, item no. 110, National Archives RG 260/288, copies NGA curatorial records.].

[3] "Gutmann Collection Here for Dispersal," Art Digest 25 (November 1, 1950), p. 13.

Associated Names

Böhler, Julius
Gutmann, Eugen
Haberstock, Karl
Mitchell, Ellin, Ms.
Munich Central Collecting Point
Sotheby's

Bibliography

1912: Falke, Otto von. Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann. Berlin, 1912: no. 170.

1990: Montagu, Jennifer. Gold, Silver and Bronze, Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Princeton, 1990: 5, 214 n. 31, repro.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 20, repro.

1999: Montagu, Jennifer. Algardi: L'Altra faccia del barocco. Exh. cat. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1999: 70-71, repro.

2000: National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:62.