Fortune Distributing her Gifts

Provenance

Horace Walpole; his sale, June 13, 1842, lot 1216.[1] (Christie's London, June 29, 1978, lot 16); (via P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012. [1] The Christie's sale catalogue in which the present print appears notes that the mannerist prints in the sale came from a dissembled portfolio once belonging to Walpole.

Fortune Distributing her Gifts

Cornelisz van Haarlem, Cornelis

1590

Accession Number

2012.92.572

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.6 × 91.1 cm (19 15/16 × 35 7/8 in.) (trimmed to plate mark)

Classification

Print

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen