Presentation in the Temple

By 1648, Senator Gussoni [1]. Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris [2]. Siegfried Aram (1891-1978) [3]. By 1944, Richard Semmel (1875-1950); his sale, Kende Galleries of Gimbel Brothers, New York, NY (May 19, 1944, lot 57) [4]. By 1964, David J. Impastato (1903-1986) [5]; 1981 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

NOTES:

[1] Carlo Ridolfi, Le Meraviglie dell'arte: Ovvero le vite degli illustri pittori Veneti e dello stato, pt 1 [1648] (Berlin: Hadeln, 1914), p. 251: "Il Signor Cavalier Gussoni, gravissimo Senatore altrove mentouato, ha di questa mano una Santa Cecilia ... e la Vergine in altro quadro, che presenta al vecchio Simeone Nostro Signore bambino, che con vezzo ridente mira la Madre, altresi divota, come adorna di pellegrine bellezze."

[2] See paper label and wax stamp on stretcher

[3] Francis Richardson, Andrea Schiavone (Oxford, 1980), p. 169, n. 281, and fig. 160: "Collections: S. Aram; R. Semmel (s. 1944)."

[4] Valuable Paintings by Old Masters and XIX Century Artists [...] from the Collections of Richard Semmel, Esther Louise Palmer, and from other Collections. Kende Galleries of Gimbel Brothers. New York, 1944. Sold for $2900. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Dr. W. Suida, dated September 1941, New York.

[5] Exhibited at Finch College Museum of Art in 1964 as "from the collection of Dr. David Impastato."

• A loan exhibition of Venetian paintings of the sixteenth century. Oct. 30-Dec. 15, 1963, (Woodside, NY: Finch College. Museum of Art)., no. 21
• Francis Richardson, "Two exhibitions of Venetian painting at Finch College", Art quarterly 27 (1964): p. 355-366., p. 357, 360; fig. 4
• Francis L. Richardson, Andrea Schiavone, (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)., p. 169, no. 281; fig. 160
• "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1981", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 41, no. 1 (1982): p. 16-31., p. 20