/internal/media/dispatcher/1411281/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Mystic Marriage of Saint CatherineParis Bordone195.9 x 235 cm (77 1/8 x 92 1/2 in.)Oil on canvasBequest of Eunice Whitney Felton in memory of her husband, C.C. Felton42.3880After a painting in the Galleria di Palazzo Rosso, Genoa
Richard McLanathan (1950) believed the painting is autograph and Giordana Canova (1964) called it a beautiful workshop copy. Frederick Ilchman has decided in consultation with Peter Humphrey to retain the attribution as “after” Bordone.
Peter Humphrey confirmed in an e-mail on 10 August 2011 that the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the Doria Collection (cat. 13, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, Washington, 2006) “is definitely the best, and for me the prototype” of the MFA painting. The 1985 Summary Catalogue considered the painting in the Galleria Nazionale, Parma, as the source painting, but the appearance of such a work could not be confirmed. The MFA now recognizes the Doria painting as the source. This is supported in the literature.
Frederick Ilchman
10 August 2011
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