The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia

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The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia

circa 1610
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 53 1/2 × 38 3/4 in. (135.9 × 98.4 cm) Framed: 64 3/8 × 50 × 2 1/2 in. (163.5 × 127 × 6.35 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (AC1996.37.1)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

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Probably Natale Rondanini (1540–1627), Rome, by inheritance to his son;(1) Alessandro Rondanini (d. 1639), by inheritance to his wife; Felice Zacchia Rondanini (1593–1667), Rome,(2) by inheritance to her grandson; Alessandro (1660–1740), Marchese Rondanini, Villa alle Terme di Diocleziano, Albano, outside Rome,(3) by inheritance to; Giuseppe (1725–1801), Marchese Rondanini, by inheritance in 1809 to; Don Camillo Zacchia Rondanini, Rome, by inheritance to; Bartolomeo (1782–1864), Marchese di Capranica, Rome.(4) [Matthiesen Fine Art, Ltd., London, sold 1986 to]; Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937–2013), Princeton, sold 1996 through; [Matthiesen Fine Art, Ltd., London, sold 1996 to]; LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) Waddingham 1985, was the first to associate the painting with that mentioned in the Rondanini inventory.

(2) Inventory, 2 June 1662, no. 30, Rome, Archivio di Stato, Miscellanea Famiglie, Busta 7. Reprinted in Salerno 1965, p. 280.

(3) Inventory 19–25 January 1741, fol. 110, item 79, Getty Provenance Index, Archival Inventory Database, I-1117, Saraceni.

(4) According to the inscription on the painted surface of the picture (Prohaska 1990, p. 200).
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Bibliography

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