Provenance
Ghizzi family, Naples; sold by 1821 to a Marquess of Lansdowne; Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood Hall, Wiltshire, England, by 1821; by inheritance to Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne [1816-1866], Bowood Hall; by inheritance to Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne [1845-1927], Bowood Hall, until at least 1914.[1] (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London), on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Company, New York); and (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], New York); sold 1955 to to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] According to Mrs. Anna Jameson, _Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London_, 1844: 306-307.
[2] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 115, no. A5476, and Sales book no. 17, p. 155 (copies in NGA curatorial files). Receipt dated 7 February 1955 from M. Knoedler & Co., in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1671.
Accession Number
1961.9.38
Medium
oil on panel transferred to hardboard
Dimensions
overall: 134.7 x 101 x 3.5 cm (53 1/16 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.) | framed: 171.8 x 139.4 x 10.2 cm (67 5/8 x 54 7/8 x 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection