{"id":8283,"date":"2014-10-01T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=8283"},"modified":"2020-11-25T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T13:36:22","slug":"to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9douard and N\u00e9lie&#8217;s infatuation for Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8283 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6794\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6794-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8284\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8284'>\n\t\t\t\tPaolo Uccello, Saint Jerome and the dragon, 1440 ca. Detail.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6826\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6826-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8291\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8291'>\n\t\t\t\tMus\u00e9e Jacquemart-Andr\u00e9, Paris, installation view.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6820\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6820-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8290\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8290'>\n\t\t\t\tCarlo Crivelli, Saint Louis, Saint Jerome and Saint Peter, 1493. Detail.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6816\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6816-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8289\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8289'>\n\t\t\t\tAndrea Mantegna, Holy Mary with the Child and three Saints, 1485.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6814\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6814-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8288\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8288'>\n\t\t\t\tAndrea Mantegna, Ecce Homo, 1493. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6811\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6811-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8287\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8287'>\n\t\t\t\tCarlo Crivelli, Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, Saint Bruno, 1493. Detail.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6798\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6798-480x321.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8286\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8286'>\n\t\t\t\tOn the top: Andrea Mantegna (attributed to), Episodes from the life of Saint Christopher, XV cent. On the bottom: Carlo Crivelli, Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, Saint Bruno, 1493. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/10\/01\/to-be-discovered-the-love-story-of-edouard-and-nelies-for-the-poldi-pezzoli-bros\/dsc_6796\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_6796-321x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-8285\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-8285'>\n\t\t\t\tMus\u00e9e Jacquemart-Andr\u00e9, Paris, installation view.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning a visit to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=8084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perugino, master of Raphael<\/a>\u201d, currently at the <a href=\"http:\/\/musee-jacquemart-andre.com\/\">Mus\u00e9e Jacquemart-Andr\u00e9<\/a> in Paris, save some time to see the rooms that \u00c9douard Andr\u00e9 and his wife N\u00e9lie Jacquemart have dedicated to the XV and XVI century&#8217;s Florentine and Venetian art, and that have been inspired by a fascinating Italian collector, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museopoldipezzoli.it\/#!\/it\/scopri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli<\/a>. This extraordinary couple \u2013 he was the heir of a protestant banking family and she was a renown society painter \u2013 devoted their entire lives to collecting works of art, and this section of their beautiful home is something that would be rare to come across even in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was \u00c9douard the one interested in the Venetian masters, while N\u00e9lie preferred the Florentine ones. The French couple travelled a lot in Italy, starting for the 1882 when, the year after their wedding, they spent four months in the country visiting Genoa, Pisa, Perugia, Rome and Florence. In that occasion they probably fell in love with the Italian culture and nature, since in October 1883 they left Paris again to spend seven other months in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this second trip they visited for the first time Milan. The city was not as fascinating for them as Venice or Florence, but here they visited the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, that opened in 1881. This museum is to be considered the model to which their&nbsp;Mus\u00e9e italien&nbsp;is inspired, as proved by the two articles published by the \u201cGazette des Beaux-Art\u201d &#8211; the prestigious art magazine directed by \u00c9douard himself &#8211; presenting to the French public the brand new astonishing Milanese museum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Milan was not \u00c9douard and N\u00e9lie&#8217;s favourite place for buying art pieces, nevertheless here they met some of the best art dealers of that time. In their second trip to Italy, they got in touch with the old Giuseppe Baslini (1817-1887), the brilliant dealer who, according to Wilhelm von Bode, was the real maker of the Poldi Pezzoli&#8217;s collection. In 1883 \u00c9douar and N\u00e9lie purchased from him the \u201cPortrait of a Duke of Milan\u201d for 1300 lire. The year after the couple bought from Sofia Arrigoni &#8211; heiress of the art dealer Carlo Arrigoni, who was amongst the favourite dealers of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli &#8211; two candleholders and two paintings, a \u201cportrait paint par Moro\u201d, and a \u201cportrait d&#8217;enfant\u201d, both of them haven&#8217;t been identified yet. In Milan they acquired also from Achille Cantoni, at that time an emerging art dealer who did sell to the Poldi Pezzoli museum too. Between 1893 and 1899 he sold to them a small painting attributed to Bergognone, a copy of the Holy Mary with the child by Cesare da Sesto, whose original work was in the collection of the Poldi Pezzoli museum, a \u201cSaint Jerome\u201d attributed to Domenico Panetti, and an \u201cAnnunciation\u201d attributed to Giotto.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carlo and Antonio Grandi sold art pieces to N\u00e9lie too, between 1893 and 1912, after \u00c9douard&#8217;s death. The most notable amongst them were two paintings attributed to Bramantino and a \u201cSaint Sebastian\u201d currently attributed to Bernardo Zenale. Moreover, Giuseppe Bertini, director of the Museum Poldi Pezzoli (since 1879) and of the Pinacoteca di Brera (since 1882), convinced the wealthy French couple to purchase the Holy \u201cMary with the child\u201d by Cima da Conegliano, and the \u201cPortrait of a Gentlemen\u201d by Bernardino de&#8217; Conti, but this latter could eventually reach Paris only after a long negotiation with the Italian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you are planning a visit to \u201cPerugino, master of Raphael\u201d, currently at the Mus\u00e9e Jacquemart-Andr\u00e9 in Paris, save some time to see the rooms that \u00c9douard Andr\u00e9 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2385],"tags":[1465,1644,1823,1824,1340],"class_list":["post-8283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-art-history","tag-andrea-mantegna","tag-carlo-crivelli","tag-edouard-andre","tag-nelie-jacquemar","tag-paolo-uccello"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}