A Cardinal Saint Pondering the Words of Isaiah
c. 1605-08
Attributed to Orazio Borgianni (Italian, c. 1578-1616)
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  • Artist Name: Attributed to Orazio Borgianni (Italian, c. 1578-1616)
  • Title: A Cardinal Saint Pondering the Words of Isaiah
  • Date: c. 1605-08
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 34-1/2 x 29-1/2 in. (87.6 x 74.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
  • Accession Number: F.1968.11.02.P
  • Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation

Object Information

4th Duke of Bedford, 1742, and by descent to his heirs;
The Dukes of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (sale, London, Christie’s, 19 January 1951, no. 14, as Caracciolo, to);
[Siegmund Pollak, London (d. 1953), passed to his son, also a dealer];
[Peter Pollak, London].
[Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 12 June 1968, lot 16, to)];
The Norton Simon Foundation.

Loan to the Permanent Collection, The Brookyln Museum

  • Brooklyn Museum, 1968-08-08 to 1969-10-06
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  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 471 p. 302
  • Franklin, David and Sebastian Schutze, Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome, 2011, Fig. 71 p. 236-237
  • Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Rossella Vodret Adamo; Museo di Palazzo Venezia, Caravaggio's Rome: 1600-1630, 2012, p. 106

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