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Description: Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master
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PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
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WORKS IN THE VANCE N. JORDAN COLLECTION AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
PLATE 5
Portrait of a Child, c. 1874
Oil on canvas, 21⅝ × 18⅝ inches (54.9 × 47.3 cm)
Signed, center left: Amancini
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-13
PROVENANCE: Christie’s East, New York, October 25, 2000, lot 128
PLATE 9
Boy with Toy Soldiers, c. 1876
Oil on canvas, 29½ × 24¾ inches (74.9 × 62.9 cm)
Vance N. Jordan Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004-108-2
PROVENANCE: Paul Bourget, Paris; Sotheby’s, New York, May 23, 1996, lot 200
PUBLISHED: Dario Cecchi, Antonio Mancini, La vita sociale della nuova Italia 10 (Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1966), pp. 104–5; The Magazine Antiques, vol. 156 (July 1999), p. 9
PLATE 10 and PLATE 11
Recto: Almond Blossoms (Fiore di mandorlo), 1876
Verso: Girl with White Veil (Ritratto di una bimba con vela bianco), 1876
Oil on canvas, 18¾ × 14¾ inches (47.6 × 37.5 cm)
Signed and dated, upper right: A Mancini / Napoli 1876; signed and inscribed indistinctly, lower right: Mancini (recto); signed and dated, upper right: Mancini / Napoli 76 (verso)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-3
PROVENANCE: Christie’s, London, March 21, 1997, lot 125
PUBLISHED: Guido Guida, Vita e opere di Antonio Mancini (Rome: N.p., 1952), illustrated as Fiore di mandorlo (recto); Costanza Lorenzetti, “La giovinezza di Antonio Mancini e il Reale Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli,” Rassegna della Istruzione Artistica, vol. 2 (May 1931), p. 150, illustrated as Donna col velo (verso)
PLATE 13
Il Saltimbanco, 1877–78
Oil on canvas, 80¼ × 43⅝ inches (203.8 × 110.8 cm)
Signed and dated, lower left: A Mancini 1878
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-4
PROVENANCE: Count Albert Cahen, Paris; Durand Ruel Gallery, Paris; Tullio Gramantieri, Rome; Galleria d’Arte Michelangelo, Guido Marchesi, director, Rome; Barone Alberto Fassini; heirs of Barone Alberto Fassini, Rome; Galleria d’Arte Edmondo Sacerdoti, Milan; Finarte, Milan, May 30, 1990, lot 137; Sotheby’s, New York, May 26, 1994, lot 163
EXHIBITED: Paris, Paris Salon, 1877; Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Prima Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale (January–June 1931); Paris, Jeu de Paume des Tuileries, L’Art italien des XIX e XX siecles (May–July 1935), no. 139; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mostra dell’Arte nella Vita del Mezzogiorno d’Italia (March–May 1953), no. 10; Milan, Villa Comunale, Mostra delle opere di Antonio Mancini (October–November 1962), no. 26; Netherlands, Dordrecht Museum, Antonio Mancini en Nederland (May 30–July 20, 1987), no. 17; Milan, Palazzo Reale, Il Secondo ‘800 Italiano: Le Poetiche del Vero (May 26–September 11, 1988); Spoleto, XXXIV Festival dei due Mondi, Antonio Mancini 1852–1930 (June 28–September 1, 1991), no. 13
PUBLISHED: Emilio Cecchi, “Il Saltimbanco di Antonio Mancini,” Vita Artistica, vol. 2, no. 5 (May 1927), plate 14, pp. 96–98, ill.; Arturo Lancellotti, Antonio Mancini (Rome: Istituto Nazionale/L.U.C.E., 1931), pl. 3; Costanza Lorenzetti, “La giovinezza di Antonio Mancini e il Reale Istituto di Belle Arti di Napoli,” Rassegna della Istruzione Artistica, vol. 2 (May 1931), p. 156, ill.; Valerio Mariani, “Antonio Mancini,” Educazione Fascista, vol. 5 (1931), p. 431; “Mancini, Antonio,” Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Rome: N.p., 1934), pl. XIV, ill; Augusto Jandolo, Le memorie di un antiquario (Milan: Casa Editrice Ceschina, 1938), pp. 194–95; Alfredo Schettini, Vita di Antonio Mancini (Naples: Rispoli, 1941), p. 33; Virgilio Guzzi, Antonio Mancini (Rome: Tumminelli, 1943), pl. 19; Carlo Siviero, “Il Saltimbanco di Antonio Mancini,” Il Mattino (April 1943); Carlo Siviero, Questa era Napoli (Naples: Morano, 1950), p. 466; Guido Guida, Vita e opere di Antonio Mancini (Rome: N.p., 1952), p. 6, ill.; Michele Biancale, Antonio Mancini: la vita (Rome: Fratelli Palombi, 1952), pp. 59–68; Fortunato Bellonzi and Costanza Lorenzetti, Antonio Mancini (Rome: De Luca, 1953), p. 8, pls. 14, 15; Alfredo Schettini, Antonio Mancini (Naples: Stiped, 1953), pp. 79, 94, 229; Fortunato Bellonzi, Antonio Mancini, Milan: Sisar, 1978, pp. 22, 30, pl. XXIV; Carlo Pi, “Antonio Mancini,” Arte Figurativa, vol. 10 (November-December 1962), p. 22, ill.; Mostra delle opere di Antonio Mancini (Villa Comunale: Milan, 1962 [exhibition, October-November 1962]), pp. 15, 33, pl. 26; Fortunato Bellonzi, “Verismo e tradizione in Antonio Mancini,” Atti dell’-Accademia di San Luca, vol. 6, (1962), pp. 3–14; Raffaello Causa, “Antonio Mancini o la crisi del valori tradizionali,” Napoletani dell800 (Naples: N.p., 1966), pp. 89–93; Dario Cecchi, Antonio Mancini, La vita sociale della nuova Italia 10 (Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1966), pl. 8, pp. 85–93; Alfredo Schettini, La pittura napoletana dell ‘800 (Naples: N.p., 1967), p. 158; Hanna Pennock, Antonio Mancini en Nederland (Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1987 [exhibition, Dordrecht Museum, May 30–July 20, 1987]), no. 17, ill.; Palazzo Reale, Il secondo ‘800 italiano Le poetiche dal vero (Milan: Mazzotta, 1988 [exhibition, May 26–September 11, 1988]); Bruno Mantura and Elena di Majo, Antonio Mancini 1852–1930 (Spoleto: Leonardo-De Luca, 1991 [exhibition, XXXIV Festival dei due Mondi, June 28–September 1, 1991]), no. 13; Luisa Martorelli, ‘“La bohème napolitana’ il viaggio a Parigi di Mancini e Gemito,” in Aria di Parigi nella pittura italiana del secondo Ottocento, Giuliano Matteucci (Comune di Livorno: Umberto Allemandi, 1998 [exhibition, Museo Civico Villa Mimbelli, Livorno, 1998–99]), pp. 90, 92
PLATE 20
Children on a Sunny Beach (Beach at Mergellina), c. 1880
Oil on panel, 5 15/16 × 9½ inches (15.1 × 24.1 cm)
Signed, lower right: AMancini
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-10
PROVENANCE: Van Spaendonck-Dreesmann Collection; Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, April 17, 2000, lot 337
PLATE 16
Self-Portrait, c. 1878
Oil on panel, 10½ × 8¼ inches (26.7 × 21 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-5
PROVENANCE: Paul Bourget, Paris; Sotheby’s, New York, May 23, 1996, lot 204
PLATE 14 and PLATE 15
Self-Portrait, c. 1883
Verso: Self-Portrait with Visor (unfinished), c. 1883
Pastel with white opaque watercolor on paper 27¼ × 18⅞ inches (69.2 × 47.9 cm)
Signed, lower left: AMancini Roma
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-14
PROVENANCE: Collection Otto Messinger; Christie’s, London, October 21, 1999, lot 146
PUBLISHED: P. d’ Achiardi, La Collection O. E. Messinger (Rome: Imprimerie De L’Unione Editrice, 1910) pp. 309, 312, 314, fig. 160; Leandro Ozzòla, ‘Artisti contemporanei: Antonio Mancini,” Emporium, vol. 33 (June 1911), p. 416, ill.
PLATE 24
Young Boy, c. 1885
Pastel on paper, 22½ × 29⅞ inches (57.2 × 75.9 cm)
Signed, lower left: AMancini
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-15
PROVENANCE: An Eastern Educational Institution; Parke-Bernet, New York, October 5, 1950, lot 62; Mrs. Beverly Bogert; Parke-Bernet, New York, March 24, 1954, lot 68; Sotheby’s, New York, October 29, 2002, lot 77
EXHIBITED: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Italian Master Drawings: 1540 to the Present (October 30, 2004–February 20, 2005)
PLATE 27
In the Boudoir, c. 1886
Pastel on paper, 15⅜ × 18¼ inches (39.2 × 46.5 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-1
PROVENANCE: Carlos Biedma, Buenos Aires; Schweitzer Gallery, New York; Sotheby’s, New York, May 23, 1985, lot 81
EXHIBITED: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (1971)
PLATE 31
Woman with an Album, c. 1888
Oil on canvas, 37¾ × 22¾ inches (95.9 × 57.8 cm)
Signed, upper left: AMancini
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-7
PROVENANCE: Giuseppe Giosi, Rome; Sotheby’s, London, June 12, 1996, lot 122 (sold under the title Anna con Album, which was evidently based on a misinterpretation of an old paper label on the painting that reads, “Donna con Album.”)
EXHIBITED: Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Prima Quadriennale d’Arte Nazionale, “Mostra Retrospettiva di Antonio Mancini” (January–June 1931), no. 25
PLATE 35
Seated Boy (possibly Gérome Caccamisi), 1902
Oil on canvas, 30⅛ × 19⅞ inches (76.5 × 50.5 cm)
Signed and dated: AMancini / Londra 02
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-8
PROVENANCE: Finarte, Milan, May 22, 2001, lot 117; Erwin Silbernagl, Milan
PLATE 36
Two Cousins (Le due cugine), c. 1902
Oil on canvas, 39 × 23⅝ inches (99 × 60 cm)
Signed, lower right: AMancini
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-11
PROVENANCE: Collezione Galassi, Rome; Collezione Eredi Grand’Uff. Giuseppe Besozzi fu Ferdinando, Turin, 1940; Christie’s, Rome, December 6, 1994, lot 342; Galleria d’arte Vittoria Colonna, Naples; Finarte, Milan, November 7, 2000, lot 88; Erwin Silbernagl, Milan
EXHIBITED: Turin, Mostre D’Arte della “Gazetta del Popolo,” 105 opere di Antonio Mancini. Catalogo della mostra commemorativa, sotto l’auspice della Reale Accademia d’Italia (March 1940), no. 16
PUBLISHED: Galleria Vittoria Colonna, I Grandi Maestri dell’Ottocento Napoletano (Naples: Galleria Vittoria Colonna, 1998), p. 73, ill.
PLATE 41
Elizabeth and Charles Hedworth Williamson with Dog, c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 29½ × 19 inches (74.9 × 48.3 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-12
PROVENANCE: Mrs. F. C. Williamson; Phillips, London, June 19, 2001, lot 80
EXHIBITED: London, M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Antonio Mancini (November 14–December 15, 1928)
PUBLISHED: M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Antonio Mancini (London: M. Knoedler & Co., 1928 [November 14–December 15, 1928] p. 6, no. 20); “Current Art Notes: Antonio Mancini,” The Connoisseur, vol. 83 (January 1929), p. 63; Dario Cecchi, Antonio Mancini, La vita sociale della nuova Italia 10 (Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1966), p. 227ff., pl. 39 and p. 229, n. 2; Bruno Mantura and Elena di Majo, Antonio Mancini 1852–1930 (Spoleto: Leonardo-De Luca, 1991 (exhibition, Spoleto, XXXIV Festival dei due Mond, June 28–September 1, 1991), p. 126
PLATE 38
Old Woman Drinking Tea, c. 1907
Oil on canvas, 29 × 23½ inches (73.7 × 59.7 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-6
PROVENANCE: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October 12, 1979, lot 211
PUBLISHED: The Burlington Magazine, vol. 121 (September 1979), p. xl
PLATE 34
William Marriott Welch (1878–1968), 1907
Oil on canvas, 39¼ × 23½ inches (99.7 × 59.7 cm)
Signed and dated, upper right: AMancini / Roma / 1907
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vance N. Jordan Collection, 2004-108-9
PROVENANCE: Verna Shepard; Lincoln Galleries, Orange, New Jersey, November 14, 2000
LOANS TO THE EXHIBITION
PLATE 1
The Street Urchin (Lo scugnizzo), 1868
Oil on canvas, 73¼ × 58⅝ inches (186 × 149 cm)
Private collection
PLATE 2
The Little Seminarian (Il prevetariello), 1870
Oil on canvas, 26 × 20⅞ inches (66 × 53 cm)
Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples
PLATE 3
After the Duel (Dopo il duello), 1872
Oil on canvas, 63¾ × 41⅜ inches (162 × 105 cm)
Museo Civico-Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin
PLATE 4
Circus Boy, 1872
Oil on canvas, 59⅝ × 28½ inches (151.4 × 72.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bequest of Elizabeth U. Coles, in memory of her son, William F. Coles, 1892, 92.1.62
PLATE 6
Saltimbanco After the Performance, 1873–74
Oil on panel, 41⅜ × 17⅜ inches (105 × 44 cm)
The Gilgore Collection / Dr. Sheldon and Irma Gilgore, Naples, Florida
PLATE 7
Scugnizzo with Crucifix, c. 1875
Oil on canvas laid down on board, 29½ × 16½ inches (74.9 × 41.9 cm)
The Gilgore Collection / Dr. Sheldon and Irma Gilgore, Naples, Florida
PLATE 8
Studying (Lo studio), c. 1875
Oil on canvas, 20¼ × 26 inches (51.5 × 66 cm)
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
PLATE 12
Girl with Yellow Scarf (Bambina con fazzoletto giallo), c. 1876
Oil on canvas, 63 × 41 inches (160 × 104 cm)
Private collection
PLATE 17
Adieu Paris (The Customs), 1878
Oil on canvas, 29 × 23¼ inches (73.7 × 59.1 cm)
National Gallery, London; Sir Hugh Lane Bequest (on loan to Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin)
PLATE 19
Self-Portrait, c. 1878–80
Oil on panel, 8½ × 12⅜ inches (21.5 × 31.5 cm)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Florence
PLATE 18
Self-Portrait with Basket, c. 1883
Pastel on paper, 27⅛ × 19⅝ inches (69 × 50 cm)
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
PLATE 21
Young Shepherd in Leggings (Pastorello in ciocie), 1883
Oil on canvas, 58¼ × 30¾ inches (148 × 78 cm)
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Genoa
PLATE 22
The Standard Bearer of the Harvest Festival, c. 1884
Oil on canvas, 65 × 33½ inches (165 × 85 cm)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
PLATE 23
The Statue Seller (Il piccolo antiquario), 1885
Oil on canvas, 29¾ × 63⅜ inches (75.5 × 161 cm)
Rijksmuseum Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague
PLATE 26
The Seller of Statues (Il venditore di statue), c. 1886
Oil on canvas, 38⅞ × 23⅝ inches (98 × 60 cm)
Private collection
PLATE 28
The Coppersmith (Il calderaio), c. 1886
Oil on canvas, 39⅜ × 23⅝ inches (100 × 60 cm)
Collection of P. Podio
PLATE 29
Resting, c. 1887
Oil on canvas, 22¾ × 38½ inches (57.9 × 97.9 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and Roger McCormick, 1962.960
PLATE 32
The Marquis Giorgio Capranica del Grillo, 1889 (post-dated 1899)
Oil on canvas, 81 × 43 inches (205.7 × 109.2 cm)
National Gallery, London; Sir Hugh Lane Bequest (on loan to Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin)
PLATE 33
Signora Pantaleoni, 1894
Oil on canvas, 82⅝ × 59 inches (210 × 150 cm)
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
PLATE 30
Lost in Thought, c. 1895
Oil on canvas, 39⅜ × 23⅝ inches (100 × 60 cm)
Rijksmuseum Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague
PLATE 25
The Maker of Figures (Portrait of the Artist’s Father), c. 1895
Oil on canvas, 39 × 23⅝ inches (99 × 60 cm)
The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; Gift of John S. Sargent, R.A., 1904
PLATE 37
Saint John the Baptist, c. 1901–2
Oil on canvas, 78 × 31 inches (200 × 80.5 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tompkins Collection, 1920
PLATE 39
Man with a Parrot (L’homme au perroquet), c. 1905
Verso (not illustrated): Homme levant son chapeau (Self-Portrait), c. 1905
Oil on canvas, 40½ × 37⅜ inches (103 × 95 cm)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
PLATE 40
Sir Hugh Lane, 1906
Oil on canvas, 89 × 46 inches (226.1 × 116.8 cm)
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
PLATE 42
The Seamstress (La cucitrice), 1914
Oil on canvas, 54½ × 39 inches (138.5 × 99 cm)
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome
PLATE 43
Self-Portrait, 1919–20
Oil on canvas, 23⅞ × 27¾ inches (60.5 × 70.5 cm)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
PLATE 44
Lady in Red (Dama in rosso), c. 1926
Oil on canvas, 75¼ × 39¾ inches (191 × 101 cm)
Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples
PLATE 45
Self-Portrait with Autobiographical Script, 1929
Oil on canvas, 31½ × 27½ inches (80 × 70 cm)
Pesci-Mancini Collection, Rome
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