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Erminia Among the Shepherds
Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, Genoese, 1581–1644)
Title
Erminia Among the Shepherds
Artist
Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, Genoese, 1581–1644)
Date
c. 1620–30
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
58 × 78 in. (147.3 × 198.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum Membership Fund purchase
Object Number
1952.270
On View
On view
Provenance
With Constantino Nigro, Genoa [1];
Purchased from Constantino Nigro by Ettore Sestieri, Rome, until April 8, 1952;
Purchased from Ettore Sestieri, through Gabriel Sonnino [2] and Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1952.
[1] The painting, with Constantino Nigro, a dealer based in Genoa, was damaged in the bombing of Genoa during World War II and restored by Cellini, according to notes transcribed from a conversation between Kay Robertson of Loewi-Robertson, Los Angeles and William A. McGonagle, Director, July 1974, Joslyn Art Museum object file.
[2] Gabriel Sonnino of New York is listed as an agent on the customs declaration form of March 14, 1952. He may have been a cousin of Ettore Sestieri, per a letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons to W. Dale Clark, trustee, March 25, 1952, or a brother, per letters from Eugene Kingman, Director, to Gabriel Sonnino, June 23, 1952, and July 26, 1952, Joslyn Art Museum object file.
Exhibition History
Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Dorothy Burgess, Strozzi Paintings Realistic in Story They Tell, Dundee and West Omaha Sun, June 14, 1962, 15A, (repro.).
Luisa Mortari, Bernardo Strozzi (Rome: Luca Editore, 1966), 67, (repro.), misidentified as private Geonese collection?
Michael Milkovich, Bernardo Strozzi, Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat. (Binghamton: State University of New York, 1967), 35, (repro.).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-nineteenth-century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972),
Italian Paintings and Sculpture (London and New York: Conalghi, 1986), 26.
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 47–48, 49, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 72–73, (repro.).