Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape

Provenance

William Graham [1817-1885], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2-3 and 8-10 April 1886, 5th day, no. 417); (Colnaghi, London and New York); Robert Henry [1850-1929] and Evelyn Holford [1856-1943] Benson, London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex; sold 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[1] sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files. [2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/535.

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape

Dossi, Dosso

c. 1525

Accession Number

1943.4.49

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 100.8 × 136.1 cm (39 11/16 × 53 9/16 in.) | framed: 129.2 × 164.5 × 10.16 cm (50 7/8 × 64 3/4 × 4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection