Jakob Ferdinand Voet, 'Cardinal Carlo Cerri', 1669-79
About the work
Overview
A cardinal sits in a red velvet chair decorated with gold braid. One of his hands lies on the arm rest, the other holds his cardinal’s biretta (hat) on his knee. Behind him is a bookcase, the shelves of which are lined with very large leather-bound volumes.
The sitter is identified by the inscription along the spines of the books as Carlo Cerri (1611–1690), Dean of the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal, or ‘Rota’. The Rota is the highest ecclesiastical court set up by the Holy See for judicial trials in the Catholic Church.
Cerri was created Cardinal, Bishop of Ferrara and Legate of Urbino on 29 November 1669 by Pope Clement IX. The portrait was probably painted soon after this date, but before 1679, when Clouwet, who made an engraving of the portrait, died. The inscription on the books refers to Cerri’s most important work, the Decisiones Rotae (Judgements of the Rota).
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Cardinal Carlo Cerri
- Artist
- Jakob Ferdinand Voet
- Artist dates
- 1639 - 1689
- Date made
- 1669-79
- Medium and support
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 121.3 × 97.8 cm
- Inscription summary
- Inscribed
- Acquisition credit
- Presented by Henry Gally Knight, 1839
- Inventory number
- NG174
- Location
- Not on display
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Previous owners
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Michael Levey, ‘National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools’, London 1986; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Bibliography
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1842Mrs Jameson, A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London, London 1842
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1843F. Summerly, Felix Summerly's Hand Book for the National Gallery, London 1843
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1845G. Foggo, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Critical Notes, London 1845
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1847R.N. Wornum, Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, London 1847
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1853National Gallery, Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index, London 1853
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1853London, National Gallery Archive, NG15/3: Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index, 1853
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1854G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being and Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss. […], vol. 2, trans. E. Eastlake, London 1854
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1867A.A. Lavice, Revue des musées d'Angleterre, Paris 1867
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1878H. Blackburn, Illustrated Catalogue to the National Gallery: Foreign Schools, London 1878
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1888E.T. Cook, A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery Including, by Special Permission, Notes Collected from the Works of Mr. Ruskin, London 1888
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1947P. Hendy, An Exhibition of Cleaned Pictures of 1947: (1936-1947), London 1947
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1961A. Mezzetti, 'Carlo Maratti: Altri contribuiti', Arte antica e moderna, 1961
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1971M. Levey, The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools, London 1971
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1986Levey, Michael, National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools, London 1986
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1995F. Petrucci, 'Monsù Ferdinando ritrattista. Note su Jacob Ferdinand Voet', Storia dell'arte, LXXXIV, 1995, pp. 283-306
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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