Currently not on view
The Circumcision
possibly Niccolo Giolfino, Italian, 1476–ca. 1555
y1935-29
Information
Title
The Circumcision
Maker
possibly Niccolo Giolfino
Medium
Oil (?) on wood panel
Dimensions
15.3 x 144 cm (6 x 56 11/16 in.)
frame: 31 x 162 x 5.1 cm (12 3/16 x 63 3/4 x 2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-29
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Andrea Monga (1794-1861), Verona; By descent to his son, Cav. Pietro Monga (?-?), Verona; Purchased from him by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) in Verona in February 1888; Purchased from him by Henry White Cannon (1850-1934) in Florence on March 10, 1906; By descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Bernard Berenson, North Italian painters of the Renaissance, (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907)., p. 244
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 15; p. 21-22; fig. 15
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools, (London: Phaidon, 1968)., p. 205
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
- Marina Repetto, "Nicola Giolfino", in Pierpaolo Brugnoli, ed., Maestri della pittura veronese, (Verona: Banca mutua popolare di Verona, 1974). , p. 158
