Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ZSUZSANNA DOBOS: New Additions to the Art and Research of Girolamo Troppa

HERE ATTRIBUTED TO GIROLAMO TROPPA, ADAM AND HIS FAMILY. DÜSSELDORF. MUSEUM KUNST PAI AST. GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG Carracci, and the portrait of Virgil and Homer in Copenhagen, touched by the spirit and style of Mola. The objective of the present study is to complement our knowledge on the art and research of Girolamo Troppa with new attributions, the publication of a hitherto unknown source and some new additions to provenance history. In 1987 the Old Masters' Gallery purchased a large-size landscape with a scene of Adam and his Family, which was first published and linked with the Bacchus and Ariadne in the Gemäldegalerie, Kassel, then figuring under the name of Giacinto Calandrucci, by Agnes Szigethi (fig. I).

10 Following this, Erich Schleier added both w

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orks to Troppa's œuvre." Although in his two overly long studies Schleier published not only a handful of paintings, but also numerous drawings in German collections by Troppa,

1- a pen drawing with wash in the Graphische Sammlung of the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, under the name of Mattia Preti, escaped his attention. The work is undoubtedly a study to the figures of the Budapest