Giovanni Bellini Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516 The Infant Bacchus, probably 1505/1510 oil on panel transferred to panel, 50.05 x 39 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.5

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Frederick Richards Leyland [1831-1892], London; (his estate sale, Christie's, London, 28 May 1892, no. 107, as Giolfino); Robert Henry [1850-1929] and Evelyn Holford [1856-1943] Benson, London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex;[1] sold 1927 with the Benson collection to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Sebag-Montefiore, Charles, "R.H. Benson as a Collector," in Jehanne Wake, Kleinwort Benson. The History of Two Families in Banking, Oxford, 1997: 486.

[2] Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:54-55.

Associated Names

• Benson, Robert Henry and Evelyn Holford
• Christie's, London
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K1659)
• Leyland, Frederick Richards

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