Currently not on view
Chiomara and the Centurion
Niccolo Giolfino, Italian, 1476–ca. 1555
y1935-30
Information
Title
Chiomara and the Centurion
Maker
Medium
Oil (?) on wood panel
Dimensions
27 x 33 cm (10 5/8 x 13 in.)
frame: 40.6 x 47 x 5.1 cm (16 x 18 1/2 x 2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his father
Object Number
y1935-30
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London; Purchased from him by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) in London in October 1912 for £200 for Henry White Cannon (1850-1934), Fiesole; 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
- Paul Schubring, Cassoni: truhen und truhenbilder der italienischen frührenaissance: Ein beitrag zur profanmalerei im quattrocento, (Leipzig: K.W. Hiersemann, 1915)., Vol. 2: pl. 14
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1932)., p. 268
- 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
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 138, cat. no. 56 (illus.); p. 228, app. no. 9 (illus.)
