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Attributed to Gerolamo Imparato (active Naples 1571–1607)

The Nativity

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Attributed to Gerolamo Imparato (active Naples 1571–1607)
The Nativity
inscribed 'GLORIA IN ECELSIS DEO ET IN TE... PAX' (upper center, on the banderole)
oil on panel, marouflaged
55 3/8 x 40 in. (140.7 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Butler, St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1960, by whom gifted in 1969 to the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Literature

'Catalogue of Accessions: Catalogue of Accessions for the Year 1969,' The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin, LVIII, 1969, p. 93, as Attributed to Niccolo Circignani.
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1970, pp. 402-403, no. 214, illustrated, as Attributed to Niccolo Circignani.
'La Chronique des Arts,' Supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, MCCXIII, February 1970, p. 56, no. 268, illustrated, as by an unknown artist.
A.M. Bureau, 'First Five of Nine Keys to Sanctity,' in St. Paul: God's Army, I, 1986, p. 45, illustrated, as Niccolo Circignani.

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Lot Essay

In 1969, Philip Pouncey suggested that this picture was close to - if not by - Niccolò Circignani; however, Pierluigi Leone de Castris believes this to be a characteristic work by the Neapolitan painter, Gerolamo Imparato, dating to the early 1590s (written communication, 1969 and 1991 respectively).

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