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Antonio Palma
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
c. 1545-50

$30,000List Price

About the Item

Provenance: Palazzo Pisani at San Stefano, Venice Mrs. F. Craighead (possibly Mrs. Fay Stinson Craighead, Evansville, Indiana) Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 June 1978, lot 310, as Bonifazio Veronese Daniel M. Friedenberg, New York, until 2011; and by descent to: Russell Friedenberg, until 2014 Literature: Giuseppe Pavanello, Gli Inventari di Pietro Edwards nella Biblioteca del Seminario Patriarcale di Venezia, Venice 2006, pp. 132, 140, as no. 10 in Pietro Edwards’ inventory of the Palazzo Pisani: “Giuseppe che fugge dalla moglie di Pitifarre” by Bonifacio Veronese. Philip Cottrell and Peter Humfrey, Bonifacio de’ Pitati, Ponzano Veneto, 2021, pp. 273, 401-2, cat. no. 166h. The present painting formed part of a room decoration, probably painted for the Pisani family, that was recorded in the Palazzo Pisani in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice, in 1802. In their newly published monograph on Bonifacio Veronese, Philip Cottrell and Peter Humfrey have associated nine like-sized canvases with the project, including our Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. One of these, Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena, is in the Pinacoteca Egidio Martini at Ca’ Rezzonico in Venice. The whereabouts of the remaining seven is at present unknown, although they remained together with the present work until the 1970s. Humfrey and Cottrell date these paintings to ca. 1545–1550, in the later stage of Bonifacio’s career. The painting dramatically illustrates the biblical tale of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. As related in Genesis, Joseph, when captive in Egypt, had been sold to Potiphar, the captain of the Pharaoh’s Guard, in whose house he lived and whom he served as a trusted majordomo. Potiphar’s unnamed wife repeatedly attempted to seduce the handsome Joseph, who remained loyal to his master. One day while alone in the house with Joseph, “she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled” (Genesis 39:15). So rejected, she then accused Joseph of attempted rape, brandishing the cloak he had abandoned as evidence against him. Potiphar then apprehended Joseph and imprisoned him. The principal part of the composition depicts Potiphar’s wife, seated on her large bed, desperately reaching for Joseph and holding the red cloak that Joseph, his arms outstretched in alarm, had draped across him. Just outside to the right, through an open portico, the turbaned Potiphar is seen directing the accused Joseph to prison. He is still attired in his blue garment, but his shoulders are now slumped in resignation as he is being marched by two guards towards the prison, the door to which a helmeted jailer is opening with a key. The story is brilliantly, almost cinematically told with clarity and directness as the narrative plays out across the canvas.

Creator:
Antonio Palma (1515 - 1575)
Creation Year:
c. 1545-50
Dimensions:
Height: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Renaissance
Period:
16th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1026202812

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