Florentine Street Scene with Twelve Figures (Sheltering the Traveler, one of the Seven Works of Mercy), anonymous, 1540 - 1560

Title(s)

Florentine Street Scene with Twelve Figures (Sheltering the Traveler, one of the Seven Works of Mercy)

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-3104

Description

Florentijnse straatscène met twaalf figuren. Stadsgezicht met reizigers staande bij een kruispunt van twee straten, waarschijnlijk in Florence. Vroeger geïnterpreteerd als het herbergen van reizigers, één van de zeven werken van barmhartigheid.

Artist

• painter: anonymous
• painter: Bacchiacca (rejected attribution)

Place

Florence

Dating

1540 - 1560

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 85 cm × width 71.5 cm
depth 7.5 cm

What

• city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Where

• Florence

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

Acquisition

purchase 13-Mar-1930

Copyright

Public domain

• 1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 7, afb. 2
• Francesco Ubertini called Il Bacchiacca, Lada Nikolenko, p. 24, 65
• 1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, p. 7, afb. 2
• Arquitecturas pintadas : del Renacimiento al siglo XVIII, Delfín Rodríguez, María del Mar Borobia Guerrero, Francesco Dal Co, p. 178, 185, cat.nr. 32
• Italian Paintings from the Sixteenth Century in Dutch Public Collections
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 92
• Studies in the history of art dedicated to William E. Suida on his 80th birthday, Rush H. Kress, p. 287
• Van Fotocommissie tot Rijksmuseum-Stichting (1920-1998), afb. 5
• B. Wind, 'A street scene by Bacchiacca and some aspects of comic stage architecture in the cinquecento', Paragone (1977) nr. 323, p. 91-100.
• A. Scharf. 'Sammler und Markt, ein Florentiner Strassenbild des Bacchiacca', Der Cicerone 21 (1929), p. 115-116.
• E. Checchi, 'Dipinti del Bacchiacca', Pinacotheca 1 (1928/29), p. 90-92.