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ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)
ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)
ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)
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ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)

Ecce Homo

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ATTRIBUTED TO GIUSEPPE ASSERETO (ACTIVE IN GENOA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY)
Ecce Homo
oil on canvas
48 ¾ x 38 ½ in. (123.8 x 97.7 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Italico Brass (1870-1943), Venice, as Gioacchino Assereto.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Florence, 18 December 1976, lot 95, as Gioacchino Assereto, where acquired by a private collector and by whom gifted on 24 April 2018 to the present owner.
Literature
G.V. Castelnovi, La pittura a Genova e in Liguria, Genoa, 1971, p. 157, as Gioacchino Assereto.
F. Simonetti in G.V. Castelnovi, La Pittura a Genova e in Liguria, Genoa, 1987, p. 135, under 'attributions to Assereto to be verified or referred to his circle'.
A. Orlando, Dipinti genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento, Milan, 2006, p. 81, note 4, as Gioacchino Assereto.
T. Zennaro, 'Il Ritrovamento della coppa nel sacco di Beniamino e una traccia per le ricostruzione del catalogo del Maestro di San Giacomo della Marina (Giuseppe Assereto?),' Tre Opere de la Pinacoteca, Naples, 2009, p. 41, illustrated p. 46, fig. 24, p. 61-62, note 45, as Master of San Giacomo della Marina, possibly identifiable as Giuseppe Assereto.
T. Zennaro, Gioacchino Assereto e i pittori della sua scuola, Soncino, 2011, pp. 600-601, pl. E19, as Master of San Giacomo della Marina, possibly identifiable as Giuseppe Assereto.
Exhibited
South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, on loan 1984-2020.

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Lot Essay

Long recognized as a picture painted in the close circle of the Genoese artist Gioacchino Assereto, Tiziana Zennaro published this Ecce Homo twice (in 2009 and 2011) with the assignation 'Master of San Giacomo della Marina'. A number of works have been grouped under this figure and the artist has been tentatively identified as Assereto's son, Giuseppe, who died very young and about whom very little is known (Zennaro, 2009, loc cit.).

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