Getty Museum acquires Manfredi
April 24 2024
Picture: Getty Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has announced their acquisition of Manfredi's A Drinking and Musical Party. Regular auction watchers will remember that the painting was offered at Christie's New York from the Alana Collection back in 2022 carrying an estimate of $4m - $6m but failed to find a bidder.
A quote from the museum's website:
“Although Manfredi was not properly a pupil of Caravaggio, his strikingly realistic depictions of genre scenes crucially contributed to the European success of the Caravaggesque movement,” says Davide Gasparotto, senior curator of paintings at the Getty Museum. “Since its reappearance in 1976, A Drinking and Musical Party has been considered one of Manfredi’s greatest paintings. Its addition to our collection represents a major coup that will allow us to display a picture that attained enormous success among collectors and amateurs in 17th-century Europe.”
