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Apollo in his Chariot
Luca Giordano (Italian (Neapolitan), 1634–1705)
about 1685
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 118.5 x 176.5cm (46 5/8 x 69 1/2in.)
Framed: 139.7 x 195.6 x 7.6 cm (55 x 77 x 3 in.)
Framed: 139.7 x 195.6 x 7.6 cm (55 x 77 x 3 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Harriet Ropes Cabot in memory of Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell
Accession Number47.1566
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1737, Pier Carlo Rinuccini, Florence [see note 1]; by descent to Pierfrancesco Rinuccini (b. 1788 - d. 1848), Florence; 1852, sold from the Rinuccini collection to Francis George Shaw (b. 1809 - d. 1882) for Francis Cabot Lowell (b. 1803 - d. 1874), Boston and Waltham, MA [see note 2]; to his son, George Gardner Lowell (b. 1830 - d. 1885), Boston; to his daughter, Anna Parker Lowell (b. 1856 - d. 1930), Boston; 1930, by inheritance to her husband, Abbott Lawrence Lowell (b. 1856 - d. 1943), Boston; about 1933, given by Abbott Lawrence Lowell to Mrs. Lowell's cousin once removed, Harriet Ropes Cabot (b. 1908 - d. 2002), Boston; 1947, gift of Harriet Ropes Cabot to the MFA [see note 3]. (Accession Date: December 11, 1947)
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the annual exhibition of San Luca, Florence, in 1737 as "Un Apollo di Giordano dell' Ill. Sig. March. Pier Carlo Rinuccini." Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giordano (Naples, 1966), vol. 2, p. 125. It was listed in the Catalogo dei Quadri ed Altri Oggetti della Galleria Rinuccini (Florence, 1845), Seconda Stanza, as "Frammento di un quadro rappresentante il Carro del Sole" by Giordano.
[2] Much of the Rinuccini collection was auctioned at the Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence in May, 1852. This painting was not included in the sale. On May 24, 1852, Shaw wrote to Francis Cabot Lowell that "I have succeeded in getting for you the only pictures on your list which have as yet [not?] been sold from the Rinacini [sic] gallery ... Giordano's Carro del Sole."
[3] Accessioned as a work by Guido Reni.
NOTES:
[1] Lent to the annual exhibition of San Luca, Florence, in 1737 as "Un Apollo di Giordano dell' Ill. Sig. March. Pier Carlo Rinuccini." Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi, Luca Giordano (Naples, 1966), vol. 2, p. 125. It was listed in the Catalogo dei Quadri ed Altri Oggetti della Galleria Rinuccini (Florence, 1845), Seconda Stanza, as "Frammento di un quadro rappresentante il Carro del Sole" by Giordano.
[2] Much of the Rinuccini collection was auctioned at the Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence in May, 1852. This painting was not included in the sale. On May 24, 1852, Shaw wrote to Francis Cabot Lowell that "I have succeeded in getting for you the only pictures on your list which have as yet [not?] been sold from the Rinacini [sic] gallery ... Giordano's Carro del Sole."
[3] Accessioned as a work by Guido Reni.