Artibus et Historiae no. 20 (X)
1989, ISSN 0391-9064Up
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TERISIO PIGNATTI - The Tallard Martyrdom of St. Catherine by Paolo Veronese
This painting has recently surfaced at the Piero Corsini gallery in New York. Its provenance may be documented back to 1756, when it belonged to the Paris collection of the Duc de Tallard. At the end of the eighteenth century the painting went to Great Britain where, after changing hands several times, it was put up at the Sotheby's sale of July 8, 1987.
Its attribution to Veronese is strengthened by a reference by Ridolfi (1648) to a picture of the same subject in the Paolo del Sera collection in Venice; this is the only Martyrdom of St. Catherine attributed to the artist in all the literature.
Stylistically, the Corsini painting fits into the last decade of Veronese's work, as it exhibits numerous similarities to such famous late paintings by him as the Martyrdom of St. Lucy (c. 1585) at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art's Annunciation.
