Narcissus and Echo. Placido Costanzi

Narcissus and Echo. Placido Costanzi
signed with the artist's initials on the dog's collar lower right
oil on canvas
53 1/2 y 39 in.; 136 by 99 cm.

Provenance

Walter P. Chrysler, circa 1971;
From whom acquired by Jean M. Zimmerman;
From whom acquired by Jack Tanzer;
Anonymous Sale, London, Sotheby's, December 2, 1976, lot 227;
Anonymous Sale, New York, Christie's, January 29, 1999, lot 36, where purchased by the present collector.
Literature
G. Sestieri, Repertorio della pittura romana della fine del Seicento del Settecento, Rome 1994, vol. I, p. 66.

Placido Costanzi (1702–1759)[1] was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.
He was born to a family of gem-makers in Rome, where he became a pupil of Benedetto Luti and painted mainly historical and devotional subjects. He painted a St. Camillus in Santa Maria Maddalena, in which he has aspired to the imitation of Domenichino. His Resuscitation of Tabitha in Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri replicates a mosaic in St. Peter's Basilica. He also painted in fresco the ceilings of the tribunes in Santa Maria in Vallicella and San Gregorio, and was much employed in painting figures in the landscapes of other artists, particularly in those of Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizonte). Costanzi also traveled to France and Spain.