LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas, a lunette

Measurements:

40.55 in. (103.00 cm.) (height) by 54.72 in. (139.00 cm.) (width)

Condition:

with corners made up

Exhibited:

London, Burlington House, 1885. Leeds, Municipal Art Gallery, Loan Collection, 1889. London, The New Gallery, Winter Exhibition of Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the British and Continental Schools, 1897-98, p. 38, no. 142, lent by Lady Milford. Düsseldorf, Städt. Kunsthalle, Sammlung Marczell von Nemes, 1912, no. 9, illustrated. Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Age of Titian, 1938, no. 27, illustrated. Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, 1960, no. 16, illustrated.

Literature:

C. Ridolfi, Le Maraviglie dell'arte.., 1648 (ed. Von Hadeln, 1914-24), p. 316. M. Boschini, Le Minere della pittura.., 1664, p. 283. M. Boschini, Le ricche minere della Pittura.., 1674, p. 30, S. Polo. B. dal Pozzo, Le Vite de' pittori, degli scultori et architetti veronesi, 1718 (ed. L. Magagnato, 1967), p. 90. A.M. Zanetti, Descrizione di tutte le pubbliche pitture della citta di Venezia, 1733, p. 187. A.M. Zanetti, Descrizione di tutte le pubbliche pitture della citta di Venezia.., 1771, p. 183. P. Caliari, Paolo Veronese, 1888, p. 115. G. Mourey, 'La Collection M. Merczell de Nemes de Budapest', Les Arts, no. 138, June 1913, p. 4, illustrated p. 9. J.P. van Derlip, 'Purchase of a Painting by Paolo Veronese. The City of Venice Adoring the Virgin and Child', Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. IX, no. 3, March 1920, p. 17. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1926, p. 22. P. Osmond, Paolo Veronese, 1927, pp. 85 and 110. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, 1957, p. 134. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane dei Rinascimento: La scuola veneta, 1958, p. 136. R. Pallucchini, 'Tiziano, Tintoretto e Veronese a Toronto', Arte Veneta, 1959-1960, p. 300, fig. 376. A. Sharf, ed., Catalogue of the Art Collection, Bob Jones University, vol. I, 1962, p. 101, cat. no. 52. R. Marini, L'opera completa del Paolo Veronese, 1968, no. 184. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections, 1972, p. 139. D. Rosand, catalogue of the exhibition Veronese & his Studio in North American Collections, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1972, illustrated on the cover. P. Ticozzi, 'Le incisioni da Paolo Veronese nel Museo Correr', Bolletino dei musei civici veneziani, nos. 3-4, 1975, no. 155. T. Pignatti, Veronese: l'opera completa, Venice, 1976, I, p. 142; II, fig. 520.

Provenance:

Officio dei Sopradazi, Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, Venice. Signor Gaspare Graglietto, Venice. Sir David Wilkie, R.A.; sale, London, June 1848, lot 183. William Forward, Count of Wicklow, Ireland. Lady Milford; Christie's, London, 28 July 1909, lot 152. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1911, lot 112 (110 gns. to Sabin). Merczell de Nemes Collection, Budapest; sale, Paris, 1913. with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1913 (cat. no. 135). Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1920-57. with Julius Weitzner, New York, 1958. Bob Jones University Collection, Greenville, S.C. with Knoedler & Co., New York, 1976. Important Old Master Paintings sold on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1991, lot 92 ($1,045,000 to the present owner).