Provenance

Alessandro Tanari, Bologna (dead 1639); by descent to his son Nicola Giovanni Tanari; in the inventory of the collection of Alessandro Tanari, May 1640, c.59r, “Alessandro Magno che parte dalla sua donna la mattina per tempo” & c.63v, “Un Istoria d’Alessandro Magno quando vuole fare partita di mano di Ludovico Carazzi Ducatoni 500”; in the collection of the Stanhope Family at Revesby Abbey, Boston, Lincolnshire (?); inherited to the Lady Beryl Franziska Kathleen Bianca Le Poer Trench, wife of Richard Philip Stanhope, Revesby Abbey, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1916 (?); and her sale at Christie, Manson and Woods, 8 February 1918, London, lot 123, as “L. Carracci, the Family of Darius”; acquired by a certain Markey; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Fujimoto Bill Broker Bank, Osaka, 1927; 1st Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 13-30 March 1928, lot 182, repr.; 6th Matsukata sale, Osaka, 19-27 May 1934, lot 16, repr.; 11th Matsukata sale, 13-17 April 1940, lot 12, repr.; Minami Gallery, Tokyo [see annotation on the mount of the photograph in NWMA curatorial file]; private collection, Japan; deposited to NMWA, 2010; donated to NMWA, 8 October 2019.

Exhibition History

1928

1st Matsukata sale; Matsukata shi shūshū ōshū bijyutsu tenrankai, Tokyofu Bijyutsukan, 13 March 1928 - 30 March 1928, no. 182

1934

6th Matsukata sale; Matsukata shi shūshū ōshū kaiga tenrankai, Osaka Hankyū Hyakkaten, 19 May 1934 - 27 May 1934, no. 16

1940

11th Matsukata sale; Matsukata shi shūshū ōshū kaiga tenrankai, Asahi Kaikan, Osaka, 13 April 1940 - 17 April 1940, no. 12

Bibliography

1841

Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Felsina pittrice: con aggiunte, correzioni e note inedite dell'autore, di Giampietro Zanotti e di altri scrittori. 2 vols., Bologna, 1841, vol. 1, p. 354.

1939

Bodmer, Heinrich. Lodovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg, 1939, p. 139, no. 28.

1984

Feigenbaum, Gail. Lodovico Carracci: A Study of his Later Career and a Catalogue of his Paintings. Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1984, part. 2, p. 506.

1985

Ciammitti, Luisa. Ercole Roberti: la cappella Garganelli in San Pietro. Bologna, 1985 (Tre artisti nella Bologna dei Bentivoglio, vol. 2), pp. 204, 215.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 351.

2003

Christiansen, Keith. “A Late Masterpiece by Ludovico Carracci: The Tanari 'Denial of St Peter'”. Burlington Magazine, Vol. 145, No. 1198 (January 2003), pp. 22-29, in part p. 23.

2013

Takanashi, Mitsumasa. “‘La Famiglia di Dario’ di Ludovico Carracci, riscoperto in Giappone”, Journal of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. No. 17, 2013, pp. 5-16

2016

Brogi, Alessandro. Ludovico Carracci: addenda. Bologna, Fondazione Federico Zeri; Bologna, Università di Bologna, 2016, pp. 41-47.

2018

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 207.

2021

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 54 (Apr. 2019-Mar. 2020), 2021, List of New Acquisitions. p. 16.

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