Gallery Label This beautifully preserved and delicately painted picture shows the Virgin bestowing the scapular—a small piece of cloth symbolic of the yoke of Christ—on a saint, Simon Stock, the English Carmelite who had a vision of this occurrence. Two donors kneel in the left middle distance together with Saint Anthony of Padua. Among the other saints can be recognized Clare and Catherine of Siena, Dominic (with a dog holding a candle in his mouth), Nicholas of Tolentino (a sunburst on his habit), Peter Martyr (with a knife in his head), Francis (preaching on the shore to birds), and Raymond of Peñaforte (sailing across the sea with a banner as a sail). The picture seems to date from about 1609, when the feast of the scapular was established.
Provenance Odoardo Zanchini, Bologna (until d. 1710); his son, Alamanno Zanchini, Bologna (1710–d. 1733; inv., 1733, no. 58); his brother, Giovan Battista Zanchini, Bologna (1733–d. 1737); his daughter, Angelica Teresa Zanchini Zambeccari, Bologna (1737–d. 1782; inv., 1783, no. 38); [Julius Weitzner, London, in 1959]; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ganz, New York (by 1962–71; sold to Harris); Morton B. and Mary Jane Harris, New York (1971–his d. 1995); Mary Jane Harris, New York (1995–2001)
Exhibition History New York. Finch College Museum of Art. "Baroque Painters of Bologna and Neighboring Cities," February 27–April 8, 1962, no. 2.
Art Museum, Princeton University. "Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections," April 27–September 7, 1980, no. 44.
Modena. chiesa del Voto e Galleria Estense. "Ludovico Lana: l'amorevole maniera e la pittura emiliana del primo Seicento," March 29–June 15, 2003, no. 34.
References Inventory of Alamanno Zanchini . October 31, 1733, no. 58 [Archivio di Stato, Bologna; published in Gian Piero Cammarota, "Le origini della Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna: una raccolta di fonti." Vol. 3: "La collezione Zambeccari," 2001, p. 165].Inventory of Angelica Teresa Zanchini Zambeccari . February 17, 1783, no. 38 [Archivio di Stato, Bologna; published in Gian Piero Cammarota, "Le origini della Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna: una raccolta di fonti." Vol. 3: "La collezione Zambeccari," 2001, p. 203].Paragone 117 (September 1959), p. 47, fig. 33.Baroque Painters of Bologna and Neighboring Cities . Exh. cat., Finch College Museum of Art. New York, 1962, unpaginated, no. 2.Lo Scarsellino . Milan, 1964, pp. 18, 36, no. 104, fig. 32b.Italian Baroque Paintings from New York Private Collections . Exh. cat., Art Museum, Princeton University. Princeton, 1980, pp. 111–12, no. 44, ill.in Ludovico Lana: l'amorevole maniera e la pittura emiliana del primo Seicento . Exh. cat., chiesa del Voto e Galleria Estense, Modena. Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2003, pp. 126–27, no. 34, ill. (color).Il Carrobbio 34 (2008), pp. 126, 129, 132 nn. 36–37, ill. p. 123 (color).
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