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Giovanni Bellini and Titian Giovanni Bellini (painter) Italian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516 Giovanni Bellini and Titian Titian (painter) Italian, c. 1490 - 1576 The Feast of the Gods, 1514/1529 oil on canvas Overall: 170.2 x 188 cm (67 x 74 in.) framed: 203.8 x 218.4 x 7.6 cm (80 1/4 x 86 x 3 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.1 |
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Provenance
Probably commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara [d. 1534);[1] by inheritance to his son, Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara [d. 1559]; by inheritance to his son, Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara [d. 1597]; by inheritance to his cousin, Cesare d'Este, Duke of Ferrara; confiscated 1598 from the Castello at Ferrara by Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini [d. 1621], Rome, when he was acting as Papal Legate and recorded in his inventory of 1603; by inheritance to his nephew, Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini [d. 1638], Rome, and recorded in his inventory of 1626; by inheritance to his niece, Olimpia Aldobrandini Borghese Pamphilj [d. 1681], Rome, and recorded in her pre-1665 inventory and 1682 posthumous inventory; by inheritance to her son, Giovan Battista Pamphilj Aldobrandini [d. 1710], Rome;[2] Aldobrandini heirs, until the line became extinct in 1760;[3] by inheritance 1769 to Paolo Borghese Aldobrandini [d. 1792], Rome; by inheritance to his nephew, Giovan Battista Borghese Aldobrandini [d. 1802], Rome; to Vincenzo Camuccini [1771-1844], Rome, in 1796/1797; presumably by inheritance to Giovanni Battista, Baron Vincenzo Camuccini, Rome; sold 1855 through Antonio Giacinto Saverio, Count Cabral, Rome,[4] to Algernon Percy, 4th duke of Northumberland [d. 1865], Alnwick Castle, Northumberland; by inheritance to George Percy, 5th duke of Northumberland [d. 1867], Alnwick Castle; by inheritance to Algernon George Percy, 6th duke of Northumberland [d. 1899], Alnwick Castle; by inheritance to Henry George Percy, 7th duke of Northumberland [d. 1918], Alnwick Castle; sold 1916 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London) on joint account with (Arthur J. Sulley and Co., London);[5] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after purchase in 1922 by funds of the estate; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Possibly commissioned by his sister Isabella d'Este; final payment made to Bellini by Alfonso in 1514; painting located in Camerino d'Alabastro of the Castello until 1598.
[2] Giovan was the son of Olimpia Aldobrandini by her second marriage, to Camillo Pamphili; upon his inheritance, Giovan changed his name to Aldobrandini. His brother Cardinal Benedetto [d. 1730] also inherited some paintings.
[3] In 1760, the paintings were involved in a lawsuit between the Colonna and Borghese, and were settled on the second son of the head of the Borghese in 1769.
[4] Cabral was Northumberland's attorney in Rome; he negotiated the transaction with Camuccini; a seal with what is probably his coat-of-arms is on the back of the painting.
[5] Although the painting was exhibited in 1920 as from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton, New York, he probably only had it on credit, as he had many paintings from Duveen on the same basis; the painting is not recorded as sold in Agnew's records until 1922; it was acquired and sold to Widener by Sulley.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Aldobrandini Borghese Pamphilj, Olimpia
- Aldobrandini, Ippolita, Cardinal
- Aldobrandini, Paolo Borghese
- Aldobrandini, Pietro, Cardinal
- Borghese Aldobrandini, Giovan Battista
- Camuccini, Giovanni Battista, Baron Vincenzo
- Camuccini, Vincenzo
- Este, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso I d'
- Este, Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II d'
- Este, Duke of Ferrara, Cesare d'
- Este, Duke of Ferrara, Ercole II d'
- Northumberland, Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of
- Northumberland, Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of
- Northumberland, George Percy, 5th Duke of
- Northumberland, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of
- Pamphilj Aldobrandini, Giovan Battista
- Saverio, Count Cabral, Antonio Giacinto
- Sulley & Co., Arthur J.
- Widener, Joseph E.
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