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Giovanni Bellini (artist) Italian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516 The Infant Bacchus, probably 1505/1510 oil on panel transferred to panel overall: 50.1 x 39 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.) framed: 72.7 x 61.3 x 8.3 cm (28 5/8 x 24 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.5 On View |
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Provenance
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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