The Country Dance
Guido Reni
Details
- Artist
- Guido Reni
- Title
- The Country Dance
- Year
- c.1600
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 81 x 99 cm
- Details
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This work was included in the Collectors Exhibition 2016 and is no longer on consignment with Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. For any enquiries, please contact the Gallery.
Provenance
Cardinal Borghese, Rome - his Inventory c. 1620: no. 69. ‘Un quadro in tela d’un Ballo di diverse contadino e contadini alla lombarda, cornice negra con oro, alto 3 ¼ largo 4, Albano’ Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Fondo Borghese busta 470
Rossano, Palazzo Borghese in Campo Marzio, Rome f.205 Sopra al detto quadro in tela con un Paese con molte figure figurine con un ballo in Campagna alto p.mi 3 e mezzo Cornice dorata del No (sic) di Guido Reni’
Old Master Paintings, Bonhams, London, 9 July 2008, lot 101 as Bolognese School
private collection, London
Literature
Manili, J., Villa Borghese fuori di Porta pinciana descritta da Giacomo Manili, Rome, 1650, p.110
as ‘L’altro d’un Ballo di villa è di Guido Reni’
della Pergola, Paola, ‘L’inventorio Borghese del 1693’, Arte Antica e Moderna, 1964, n. 26
Corradini, S., ‘Un antico inventorio dell quadreria del Cardinale Borghese,’ in Bernini scultore: La nascita del Barocco in Case Borghese, various authors, Rome, 1998, pp. 449-456
Fumagalli Elena, ‘Sul collezionizmo di dipinti ferrarese a Roma nel Seicento. Riflessionie aggiunte in Il camerino delle pitture di Alfonso I
Ballarin A., ed., Il camerino delle pitture di Alfonso I, vol VI, 2007, pp.173-193, particularly p.175
Further Information
This work has been attributed as an early painting by Guido Reni based on the affinity of the treatment of the landscape and the figures and the colouring; the influence of the Carracci (Agostino, Ludovico and Annibale, founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna where Reni studied from 1594) and echoes of the Emilian Mannerist, Niccolo del Abate. Further archival research has led to the work being discovered on numerous inventories of Reni’s oeuvre.
The painting depicts the theme of an Emilian Concert Party, a subject typical of del Abate and his contemporaries and followers to which Reni would have been familiar.
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