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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Saint Cecilia and an Angel
Giovanni Lanfranco (painter)
Italian, 1582 - 1647
Orazio Gentileschi (painter)
Italian, 1563 - 1639
Saint Cecilia and an Angel, c. 1617/1618 and c. 1621/1627
oil on canvas
Overall: 87.5 x 108 cm (34 7/16 x 42 1/2 in.) framed: 109.9 x 130.2 x 6.4 cm (43 1/4 x 51 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.73
1944Hermanin, Federico. "Gli ultimi avanzi di un' antica galleria romana." Roma (1944): 45-46.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 82, no. 29, repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1958Emiliania, Andrea. "Orazio Gentileschi: nuove proposte per il viaggio marchigiano." Paragone 103 (1958): 43.
1959Judson, J. Richard. Gerrit van Honthorst. The Hague, 1959: 177.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 218, repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1960Shapley, Fern Rusk. Later Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Six in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 20, color repro.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 44, color repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 309, repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 56, as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1966Bissell, R. Ward. "The Baroque Painter Orazio Gentileschi: His Career in Italy." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1966.
1967Moir, Alfred. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967: 1:70, 72, 83, 118; 2:76, fig. 71.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 49, repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1969Herzog, Erich. Die Gemäldegalerie der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel. Hanau, 1969: 85, no. 43.
1971Bissell, R. Ward. "Orazio Gentileschi: Baroque without Rhetoric." The Art Quarterly 3 (1971): 277.
1971Spear, Richard. Caravaggio and His Followers. Exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1971: 103.
1973Wittkower, Rudolf. Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750. 3rd rev. ed. Harmondsworth, 1973: 340, n. 5. (Reprinted 1980)
1973Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 83, fig. 148.
1974de Mirimonde, Albert P. Sainte-Cécile: Metamorphoses d'un thème musical. Geneva, 1974: 44, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 148, repro., as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1976Santi, Francesco. "Una tela di Orazio Gentileschi in Umbria." Bollettino d'Arte 5th ser., 41 (1976): 43-44, figs. 3, 6.
1979Nicolson, Benedict. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590-1650. Oxford, 1979.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:199-200, 543-544, II:pl. 138, 378, 379, as by Orazio Gentileschi.
1981Bissell, R. Ward. Orazio Gentileschi and the Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting. University Park, Pennsylvania, 1981: 39-40, 165, 166-167, no. 37, fig. 86.
1982Bernardini, Maria Grazia. Arte Sacra in Umbria. Mostra di dipinti restaurati 1976-1981. Exh. cat. Galleria Nazionale, Perugia, 1982: 100-101.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 232, no. 296, color repro.
1985Camiz, Trinchieri. In Cinque secoli di stampa musicale in Europa. Exh. cat. Palazzo Venezia, Rome. Naples, 1985: 254.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 172, repro.
1988Emiliani, Andrea. "Il viaggio marchigiano di Orazio Gentileschi." In Giovan Francesco Guerrieri. Dipinti e Disegni--Un accostamento all'opera. Exh. cat. Palazzo di Città, San Severino Marche; Chiesa di San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna.Bologna,1988: 47.
1989Nicolson, Benedict. Caravaggism in Europe. 2nd ed. of International Caravaggesque Movement, revised and enlarged by Luisa Verrova. 3 vols. Turin, 1989: 1:114, no. 207; 2:fig. 207.
1994De Grazia, Diane, and Erich Schleier. "Saint Cecilia and an Angel: 'The Heads by Gentileschi, the Rest by Lanfranco." The Burlington Magazine 136 (1994): 73-78, color repro.
1994Townsend, Richard P. Botticelli to Tiepolo: Three Centuries of Italian Painting. Exh. cat. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Joslyn Art Mus., Omaha; New Orleans Mus. of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art; Dayton Art Institute. Tulsa, 1994: 143-145, cat. 16.
1996De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 103-112, color repro. 105.

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