The Forge of Vulcan

ArtistAttributed to Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) b. 1518/1519, Venice; d. 1594, Venice

Datecirca 1544–1548

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 1/2 x 52 1/2 in. (77.5 x 133.4 cm)
Frame: 40 x 60 3/4 x 3 in. (101.6 x 154.3 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lunsford Long in memory of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberGL.56.15.2

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ProvenanceFriedrich (Fritz) von Friedländer-Fuld (1858-1917) collection, Silesia, before November 1919; sold Berlin, Rudolf Lepke, November 25-26, 1919, no. 52 [illustrated]; [sold to?] S. Ogdan Steinhardt, Paris and Berlin, by 1925; at Bode's request, on loan to Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, before and after Akademie exhibition (1925); taken to Paris by Steinhardt, "after Hitler's advent" [according to Aram (letter to Valentiner of September 20, 1956]; [Steinhardt in New York by February, 1941]; probably sold by Steinhardt to [dealer] Siegfried Aram, New York and Los Angeles, by June, 1956; W. Lundsford Long, Warrenton, North Carolina, 1956; on loan to NCMA, 1956-1958; given to NCMA, 1958.Published ReferencesGemälde Alter Meister Aus Berliner Besitz (exhibition catalogue) (Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1925), cat. no. 397.

Clemens Sommer, "Tintoretto's Forge of Vulcan," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Spring 1957), 3-5, illus. (b-w) fig. 2.

"Gifts Presented to the North Carolina Museum of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 3 (1959), listed 46.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 35, illus. (b-w) 58, fig. 35.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, "Tintoretto," Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, Vol. 13 (Venice, Rome, 1965), col. 940.

Pierluigi de Vecchi, L'opera completa del Tintoretto (Milan, 1970), no. 30.

B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census... (Cambridge, 1972), 200.

Rodolfo Pallucchini, "La giovinezza del Tintoretto. La giovinezza del Greco," Dispense ciclostilate (University of Padua, 1974-75), 74-75.

R. Pallucchini and P. Rossi, Tintoretto: le opera sacre e profane, Vol. 1 (Milan: 1982/1990), no. 83.

Ana Debenedetti, “A recently identified painting by Tintoretto in the Victoria and Albert Museum,” The Burlington Magazine 155, no. 1318 (January 2013), mentioned and illus. (color) 21, fig. 28.
Exhibition HistoryOn loan to Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1925-1937.

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, "Gemälde Alter Meister Aus Berliner Besitz," July-August 1925, cat. no. 397.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of W. R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 35, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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