GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 3 3125 01035 6273 18U9 June 9 LoChC CATALOGUE tY CHOICE AND IMPORTANT COLLECTION ITALIAN TOGETHER WITH FOUR CAPITAL ENGLISH WORKS, THE PROPERTY OF WILLIAM CONINGHAM, Esq.; A FEW BRONZES; AND A CARVING, BY B. CELLINI: WHICH Messrs. CHRISTIE and MANSON, AT TH&XB, GREAT ROOM. L, /7'^^'^ 8, KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, On SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1849, AT ONE O CliOCK PRECISELY. May be viewed Two days preceding, and Catalogues had, at Messrs. Christie and Manson's Offices, 8, King Street, St. James's Square. K. • CONDITIONS OF SALE. I. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer ; and if any dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. II. No person to advance less than 1.?. — above Five Pounds, 5*. — and so on in proportion. III. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, and to pay down 5*. in the Pound, or more, in part of payment, or the whole of the Purchase-Money, if required; in default of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re- sold. IV. The Lots to be taken away with all Faults and Errors of Description, at the Buyer's Expense and Risk, within Two Days from the Sale ; Messrs. Christie and Mansom not considering themselves answerable for the correct description or authenticity of any Lot. V. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can on any account be removed during the time of Sale; and the remainder of the Purchase-Money must absolutely be paid on the delivery. VI. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; all Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall here-sold bypubhc or private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. CATALOGUE. On SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1849, AT ONE O CLOCK PRECISELY. UNKNOWN. ^ . /^/ 1 A Dog on a Cushion FRANCOIS MILLE. y/ " . /^ 2 A pair of small Classical Landscapes — circles ROMAN SCHOOL. .J> . y ■- 3 Satyrs pursuing Nymphs, in a landscape NICOLAS POUSSIN. E)vKWwjfLJ /^ yj rf 4 A copy of the Banquet of the Gods, by Bellini and Titian, now in the possession of the Cavaliere Camuccini, at Rome. Canvas ANGIOLO BRONZINO. y^ . /^ 5 A Portrait of one of the Children of the Medici in a silk dress, holding an apple in his hand. Canvas 9^ •/ 4 ^•^ ^ UNKNOWN. 6 A minute Landscape. This was presented by the Cavaliei'e ^f^ ' ^ ^ Camuccini, to Mr. S. Woodburn, by whom it is attributed to Raffaelle PAOLO CALIARI VERONESE. C . /^^ 7" The Wife of the Painter, in a crimson and wliite dress, seated with a poodle dog in her lap, and a handkerchief in her hand; the execution is admirable JACOPO ROBUSTI, IL TINTORETTO. /^ . /9 8 A Portrait of a Venetian Counsellor, in a black dress edged with white. Canvas ANNIBALE CARRACCL y^p^ /^- 9 Nymphs, Mermaids, and Tritons. A beautiful composition. Panel ANNIBALE CARRACCI ^ ,-10 Two Tritoi ^ ^- 10 Two Tritons, and a Marine Cupid — the companion. ^ y '^ Panel GIULIO PIPPI, IL ROMANO. > ^:v 11 A Group of dancing Amorini, in a woody landscape TIZIANO VECELLIO. . — 12 Jason taming the Bulls that breathed flames, and had -V y ' ^ feet and horns of brass. Panel. From Mr. Hamlefs collection /^jy.rjL- ^ ^ MARCO BASAITI, a Painter of the Friuli. / ^ __ 13 The Marriage of St. Catherine; the Infant in the lap of the Virgin, St. Joseph behind, and beautiful landscape background. Panel. From Mr. Beckford's collection SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK. j>v /i 14 A copy of the "Action surprising Diana at the Bath," by Titian : in the Earl of EUesmere's collection. Canvas GIOVAN ANTONIO LICINIO IL PORDENONE. 15 The Portrait of Alfonso Duke of Ferrara, in a black ^ y, ^^' dress edged with ermine, a gold chain round his neck, his right hand resting on a helmet, his sword in his left hand. A first rate work of this great portrait painter, loho died at Ferrara. Canvas. From Lord Potv er scour t's collection UGOLINO DI SIENNA. // /^ 16 The ScALiNE of an Altar, dated 1333 : the Virgin and Child surrounded by angels in the centre, and six saints in niches on each side, on gold grounds. Panel. Ugolino was a scholar of Giotto's, and died in the year 1349 UGOLINO DI SIENNA. ^ / /- ]7 The Companion Scaline, with the Logos in the centre, and six saints on each side. Panel CARLO CRIVELLL ^ 18 The LasT Supper. A beautiful and interesting work. ^7 Panel. Carlo Crivelli, though a Venetian, resided for many years at Ascoli, in the March of Ancona: he was born very early in the 15th century RAFFAELLE DI URBINO. ^gj./ef 19 The Virgin and Child. A nolle cartowi of Raff aelle's, well known by the lithograph published by Messrs. P. and D. Colnaghi CKo^' P^A ^ .^ GENTILE DI FABRIANO. ^ \<^«^t^ ^yy>' yj^ 20 A Naval Expedition : John VI., Palseologus, coming ^ with a great attendance of nobles and clergy to Italy. Some of his earliest works are in the Duomo at Orvieto, dated 1417. Panel BARTOLOME ESTEVAN, MURILLO. _ 21 A Shepherd piping, with a wreath of leaves round his / t/ -^ . t> head : landscape background. Panel. From Sir Thomas Baring's collection GAINSBOROUGH. / / ^ 22 A ROMANTIC Valley, with high rocks, among which a ^\f^ \\r a stream is falling in a cascade, and peasants keeping sheep on the sloping sides of the hills, which are covered with wood WILSON. y y /- / C^ A View on the Dee, with richly wooded banks, and two figures in the foreground. This beautiful subject is represented under the aspect of a warm evening sun SIR D. WILKIE. 24 The Reading the Will. The beautiful drawing made for ^X j/*^ - the engraver, and aftertcnrds touched upon and coloured by Sir David Wilkie HOGARTH. y 4 > 25 Portraits of Lady Thornhill, and the Wife and Sister of the Artist CLAUDE GELEE. 26 A Marine View of a Port, with rich architecture and ^/ a hghthouse ; shipping moored, and figures landing mer- chandize in the foreground. Canvas. This beautiful picture is from the collection of Cardinal Fesch /v///^ CLAUDE GELEE. 27 A Landscape, with a bridge across a river, and a group of trees, near which cattle and goats are feeding; and a shepherd teaching a shepherdess to play on the pipes, in the foreofrounc]. Panel ANTONIO POLLAJUOLO. ^^ ^^ /\J 28 Apollo and Daphne. This celebrated man was a sculptor I - 'l^ and engraver, as well as a painter. There is a rare engraving by ^^^ him, well known to print collectors^ as *' La battaglia de nudi," which Lanzi supposes to have been executed about 1480. Panel J. VAN EYCK. -z^ ^/2;, A^Jc^dU /t'2,'A^* 29 St. Jerome in his Study, with an open colonnade behind, and a peacock in the foreground. Panel. For an account of this beautiful and interesting little picture, see Wagen iii., 43. From Sir Thomas Baring's collection BENVENUTO TISIO, IL GAROFOLO. ^/2 //> 39 ^^^^ Circumcision of Christ, in the Temple : St. Joseph and the high priest standing on each side of the altar, with ^ " >mumerous figures around them. Panel. From the Earl of ^. ' K\C.^- \'i^AeAJUL.x ^i- 'A ""' /// 8 2J~6^ /^ - ^ gjj^ PETER PAUL RUBENS. ^ ^f^'6\ The Judgment of Paris: the three Goddesses standing near some trees; Minerva is reaching a shield, which is sus- A^0:j^f\x^ pended from a tree : Paris and Mercury are conversing together near them. Panel. A beautiful finhhed study BACCIO BELLA PORTA, ERA BARTOLOMEO. 32 The Nativity : the Virgin and St. Joseph kneeling over /^^ the Infant, who lies on the ground under a wooden roof; St. ^ . John is seen walking in the middle distance, and a castle on the I bank of a lake in the background. Panel. From Dr. Frank's collection JACOPO DA PONTE BASSANO. 33 A MAGNIFICENT LANDSCAPE, with figuros and animals : a ^ / /r- — man in the centre is sowing seeds, a female seated with a child, a girl feeding sheep, and a woman kneeling in the foreground ; with a landscape backgroimd worthy of Titian. Canvas. From the Le Brun and Sir Thomas Baring's collections ERA FILIPPO LIPPL 34 The Wise Men of the East offering their Presents to the INFANT Christ in the lap of the Virgin, who is seated before ^io -' a wooden building, with numerous figures around. Lippi was f , a Carmelite monk. He died at Spoleto ; and Lorenzo the Magnificent raised a tomb to his memory. Panel. From the l^^vi^ Guicciardini Palace, at Florence. Circle DOMENICO ZAMPIERI, IL DOMENICHINO. 35 A Landscape, with buildings on a height above a river, with figures on a bank, and others pushing off a boat from the foreground, near a large tree. Panel ^^/^ ^J^:^ \\ DOMENICHINO. //J^ /I/ - SQ A River, with richly wooded banks, and two figures in the foreground — the companion. Panel ^/\JM^I0YAN^I BATISTA CIMA, DI CONEGLIANO. , ^( ^^^ // - 37 The Man of Sorrows. The figure is seen to half-length : a, \ / L^-*^ ^ garment over the left shoulder ; he holds a spear in his handB*t-«A^ Ir /■vj'j^ ' with landscape background, and the rabbit in the foreground FILIPPINO LIPPI. iSiS^txiu) ^ \/ZJ /// 38 The Wise Men of the East offering Presents to the y^ INFANT Christ — a composition of numerous figures before a ruined building. Filippino Lippi is celebrated for having completed the Brancacci Chapel, in the Carmelite Church at Florence, commenced by Masolino di Panicale, and continued by Masaccio. Circle. Panel. From the Guicciardini Palace, at Florence ANDREA MANTEGNA. K/-^ 39 The Resurrection of Christ, who stands on the Tomb ^ ^' rf before a perpendicular rock, with five soldiers sleeping beneath. Panel. Mantegna was the most distinguished of the scholars of Squarcione, the founder of the Paduan School. This and the companion are from the collections of the Casa Capponi, at Florence, and Mr. Sandford ANDREA MANTEGNA. kr^ , 40 An Angel, clothed in a lonff white ojarment, declareth ^ *• ' '^ the Resurrection of Christ to the Three Women — Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome. The companion. Panel u 10 GIOVANNI BATISTA, CIMA DI CONEGLIANO. /' 41 La Madonna del Cardellino. The Virgin and Child, with a goldfinch in his hand : she is seated with a white drapery \>S^ over her bead; buildings seen in the background. Signed • '* Joannes Baptista Coneglos P," Panel. From Lord Powers court's collection RAFFAELLE SANZIO DI URBINO. ^ ^ ," 42 The Martyrdom of St. Placido — a composition of seven O >^o ^ f %J figures. This beautiful little picture is in Raffaelle's first or {j^n Umbrian manner, before he had studied under Pietro Perugino. {\ . From the Borghese and W. Y. Otileys collection. See ' Buchanan's Memoirs of Painting, vol. ii. BONIFAZIO VERONESE, commonly called VENEZIANO. 43 A bacchanalian Scene, in a beautiful landscape : a group ij^ -// — " of figures feasting, among whom is seen the painter with a cup of wine raised to his lips ; satyrs are playing music, and Silenus riding on an ass, attended by fauns and nymphs : the landscape <|^^j— yv^ is richly wooded with hilly distance. Canvas. From Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLL 44 The History of the Creation of Man and Woman, and •^o^ of the Temptation. A Scholar of Cosimo Roselli, and a friend ^ y of Fra Bartolomeo. His works are remarkable for the wonder- ful brilliancy of their colouring. His picture of the " Salutation," in the Public Gallery at Florence, is one of the ornaments of that fine collection. Panel. Brought to this country by Mr. Irvine ^/T7 .^ . ^ [^0^,^^^ UKaj ^rSyr.^^C 11 ^^^^ LUCCA SIGNORELLI, DI CORTONA. f-y /^ ^5 The Martyrdom of St. Catharine. This great painter was a scholar of Piero della Francesca. His most important works are at Orvieto, and excited the admiration of Michel Angelo. He also painted two of the compartments in the Capella Sistina. Panel LODOVICO MAZZOLINI DI FERARA. y 46 The Circumcision of Christ: the Infant is held by the ^ ^/ High Priest, with numerous figures around: a portico on four columns, with richly sculptured frieze, is seen above in the back- ground. Panel E ' .- - -^- < ' • <^ i n^ . GIOVANNI BELLINI. y^ 4 /f ^47 The Virgin and Child : the Virgin, in a red and blue dress, seated with the Infant in her lap : a green drapery falls behind on one side, and on the other side is seen a beautiful landscape background. Panel. This exquisite work is inscribed " Joannes Bellinus." From Sir Thomas Barins's collection FRANCESCO GRANACCI. / V ^_ 48 The Annunciation of the Virgin, before whom the angel ^^y^ is kneeling with a lily in his hand, another angel with hands crossed on his breast is looking on : the Almighty appearing above, and the dove alighting over the Virgin. A landscape seen through two arches of a colonnade. A scholar of Dome^ nico Ghirlandajo ; born 1477, died 1544. Panel. Purchased at Rome GERINO DI PISTOJA. rj^ /^ 49 The Virgin and Child enthroned, with St. John, St. Laurence, St. Augustine, and St. Theresa on each side. One pq,p^Mi«M?^^>* of the most distinguished scholars of Perugino. This rare j—jm- ^ i / y / picture came from the nunnery of St. Clare, at Citta San Sepolcro. Panel. It is signed, and dated 1510 GASPAR POUSSIN. 50 A grand Landscape, with fine broken rocks, figures on a ^2 ' ^/ road, and a waterfall. Canvas. From Sir Thomas Barivg^s collection TEOSCOPOLO IL GRECO, or EL GRIEGO. 51 A fine full-length Portrait of Vincentio Anastagi, in a y//^, //TT steel cuirass, green velvet breeches and white hose : one of the stout knights of St. John, who kept the outpost of Christendom against the Turks, with the Grand Master Giovanni di Valetta. This is probably the best specimen of his pencil in England. 'U^ i\U — Stirling's Annals of the Artists of Spain. Canvas. Pur- chased at Rome ^ REMBRANDT VAN RHYN. 52 The Portrait of Martin Looten, a Dutch surgeon, dated • r"' x/? 1637, the same year as the '• School of Anatomy'' at the Hague. Panel. This superb picture is from Cardinal Fesch^s collection ALESSANDRO BONVICINO, IL MORETTO DI BRESCIA. 53 The Assumption of the Virgin, with St. Catharine and ■^^~i^^ St. Hippolito standing beneath. Canvas. From Mr. Solly^s collection TADDEO DI BARTOLO. 54 A BEAUTIFUL GoTHic Altar. The Virgin sits on a throne A^ — / ^ surrounded by angels, and two saints on either hand. Bartolo was a Siennese painter, a scholar of Giotto, and his works possess, — ■ in a remarkable degree, the characteristics of the school. Panel. j Purchased from Sigfior Baldeschi, of Rome ^9 7^^-/9 C 13 GIORGIO BARBARELLT, GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO. 55 The Portrait of the Great Captain Gonzalvo. Panel. \j/~ /^^ This magnificent portrait, unquestionably the work of Giorgione, has always been considered that of Gonzalvo ; but there is good reason to suppose, from what Vasari says, that it is in reality the portrait of one of the captains who accompanied him to Venice at the time that he visited the Doge Agostino Bar- berigo. From Lord Methueris collection. An early Italian engraving, with inscription, of this fine jncture, is in the British Museum PAOLO CALIARI VERONESE. ^^^^ ^"^"^ _ 56 The Death of Procris, Cephalus, Procris, and the Dog ^ ^^ Lelaps, with beautiful landscape background. Canvas. Painted for the Emperor Rudolf, and presented by him to the King of Spain. It was brought from Madrid by Joseph Bonaparte TIZIANO VECELLIO. fit^wiX/tv-.. yy • 51 Sextus Tarquinius and Lucretia. This very celebrated ^ picture formed part of the Whitehall Gallery of Charles I. : it was then purchased for the King of Spain, and was at last carried offbxj Joseph Bonaparte from Madrid. Canvas ANDREA MANTEGNA. (\/^ 58 Christ praying on the Mount of Olives: the three disciples sleeping in the foreground: Judas and the soldiers X -^ ^ ' approaching in the distance : the city of Jerusalem, in a wild and romantic landscape, form the background. Panel. This fine work is signed " Opus Andrea Mantegna." From Cardinal Fesch's collection 14 / CARLO CRIVELLI. 59 The INFANT Christ on the Lap of the Virgin, who is ^' / / habited in a rich dress, presenting the keys to St. Peter, who / kneels at his side, and surrounded by St. Ambrose, St. Francis, and other saints : behind the Virgin is a drapery suspended with a festdon of fruits above, and rich architecture on each side, with an angel seated on each wing of a pediment. The Papal tiara lies as the feet of the Infant. Beneath is inscribed '^ Opus Caroli Crivelli Vineti." This magnificent picture was obtained by Signor Fidanza, from the Brera Gallery: it then passed into the collection of the Marchese di Gugelmi at, Rome, from whom it 7vas ptirchased by Mr. Coningham y^/ RAFFAELLE SANZIO DI URBINO. 60 Christ praying on the Mount of Olives, the three dis- / 6^ ciples, St. Peter, St. John, and St. James, asleep in the fore- ground. To the right, in the distance, Judas and six men armed, one bearing a torch, approach. To the left are seen two others, one of whom rests upon a shield. Above them an angel is seen descending, holding the cup : the city of Jerusalem in the back- ground. Panel. Vasari thus describes this beautiful and highly- finished picture. " Fece al medesimo — Guidobaldo duca d'Urbino — un quadretto d'un Cristo che ora nell'orto, e lontani alquanto i tre Apostoli che dormono ; la qual pittura e tanto finita, che un minio non puo essere nc migliore ne altrimenti." The history of the -picture is detailed in Passavanfs Life of Raffaelle. From the collection of Prince Gabrielli, at Rome SEBASTIANO FRATE DEL PIOMBO. 61 The Holy Family — the Child springing out of the lap of ySf^ ' the Virgin : St. Joseph asleep to the right, St. John the Baptist ^ n ^ ^v^ standing on the left, and the donor kneeling in adoration in the . . ' \ foreground. Panel. From the collections of Senator Cambiaso, at Genoa, Le Brim, and Sir Thomas Baring. Engraved ///^^•/^ ^ ux. \ f/f^^' /^ ^ 15 BRONZES. (/"■f^ 62 Perseus, by John of Bologna 4 ^ ^ 63 Andromeda, by John of Bologna /I f/^^^ The Notte of Michael Angelo — a pair ^ 'fo ^J5 The crouching Venus, on marble pedestal ^ 66 An EXQUISITE CARVING, by BENVENUTO CELLINI, y * ^ in ivory : in the centre Apollo in a chariot, and the planets in an oval border, set with malachite and lapis-lazuli, scrolls of silver- gilt at the angles. In a frame, after a design of Holbein's //. /e 67 THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS— a very fine carving, by . Tibaldi, in high relief, in a rosewood case / //? /7- ^/^ FINIS. London : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 14, Charing Cross, /Ln/^S:f-/> 9-^ ^r THE QETTy CENTER XL-APSS^-DtfO^I-