Joseph Fesch - Paintings Owned By Fesch

Paintings Owned By Fesch

The Fesch collection included almost 16,000 paintings (not all at the same time). The core was Italian works of the Renaissance to the 18th century, but Fesch also had a number of Dutch Golden Age paintings and contemporary French works, as well as a number of classical sculptures. Fesch was a fairly early collector of Quattrocento paintings, or "Italian Primitives". The Musée Fesch, Ajaccio contains much of Fesch's collection, including works by Botticelli, Giovanni Bellini, Titian and others. Another part, including the works considered most important, was sold by auction in 1845. Paintings not in Lyons or Ajaccio include:

• The Entombment (Michelangelo), National Gallery, London
• St. Jerome in the Wilderness, Leonardo da Vinci, Vatican Museums
• Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione), NGA, Washington, who also have a Nativity by Perino del Vaga, Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak by Jan Boeckhorst and The Larder by Antonio Maria Vassallo.
• Mond Crucifixion, Raphael, National Gallery, London
• Portrait of a Seated Woman with a Handkerchief, now attributed to Carel Fabritius rather than Rembrandt, Art Gallery of Ontario, Totonto.
• Adoration of the Magi, Bramantino, National Gallery, London, who have other works including a Philippe de Champaigne Vision of St Joseph, a Vincenzo Foppa & a Botticelli.
• Last Judgement Fra Angelico, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
• The Broken Mirror, Greuze, Wallace Collection, London, who have another Greuze, a Anthony van Dyck Virgin and Child, a Philippe de Champaigne Annunciation, and a Hobbema.
• Hunting in the Lagoon, Vittore Carpaccio, Getty Museum, originally part of the same composition as his Two Venetian Ladies
• Saints George and Dominic, side panels from an altarpiece, Carlo Crivelli, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Lamentation of Christ, Scipione Pulzone, MMA