MATTIA PRETI (1613-1699)
SAINTS VINCENT FERRER, PETER MARTYR AND RAYMOND OF PEÑAFORT , c.1670s-80s
Oil on canvas; inscribed ‘TIMETE DEVM’ (lower left, on a scroll held by Saint Vincent
Ferrer) and ‘CREDO DEO’ (centre, in an open book held by Saint Peter Martyr)
Ferrer) and ‘CREDO DEO’ (centre, in an open book held by Saint Peter Martyr)
306 x 207 cm
Provenance
Francesco Carlo Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia (1668-1732), described in his Palazzo in Piazza Pontecorvo, Naples, in 1732: ‘Un quadro di tre santi domenicani di palmi 8 e 12, mano del cavaliere Mattia Preti calabrese, cornice negra ed oro intagliata’;
Garden Duff-Dunbar of Hempriggs and Ackergill (1838-1889), by 1872;
and by descent at Ackergill Tower, Caithness;
until sold at Christie’s, London, 7 December 2023, lot 24;
where acquired.