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Raphael (artist) Italian, 1483 - 1520 Saint George and the Dragon, c. 1506 oil on panel Overall: 28.5 x 21.5 cm (11 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.) framed: 53.3 x 47.6 x 8.3 cm (21 x 18 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.26 |
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Provenance
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke [d. 1630], Wilton House, Wiltshire, by 1627; possibly his son, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke [d. 1650], Wilton House, Wiltshire; given either by the 3rd Earl or the 4th Earl between 1628 and 1639 to Charles I, King of England [d. 1649];[1] (Charles I [Commonwealth] sale, Somerset House, London, 19 December 1651); purchased by Edward Bass;[2] Charles d'Escoubleau, Marquis de Sourdis [d. 1666, possibly acquired from Bass].[3] Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy, by 1729; Pierre Crozat [1665-1740], Paris, by 1729;[4] by inheritance to his nephews, Louis-François Crozat, marquis du Châtel [1691-1750], Paris, and [on Louis-François' death without a male heir] to Louis-Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers [1700-1770];[5] his heirs; sold 1772 through Denis Diderot [1713-1784], as an intermediary, to Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796], for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg;[6] purchased March 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) by Andrew W. Mellon, New York and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[7] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Recorded in Van der Doot, A Catalogue and Description of King Charles the First's Capital Collection of Pictures, Limnings, Statues, etc, from an Ashmolean manuscript (c. 1639), prepared for press by G. Vertue (printed by W. Bathoe), 1757, p. 4.
[2] According to O. Miller, The Inventories and Valuations of the King's Goods, 1649-1651, Volume 43, 1970-1972, p. 258.
[3] According to N. Le Clerc and J. Colomsat, Cabinet des Singularitez D'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture, et Graveure, Paris, 1699, p. 66-67.
[4] Cited by F. R. Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, Washington, 1979, p. 394, as documented in the Recueil des Stampes...dans le Cabinet du Roi..., Volume I, 1763, p. 13.
[5] Recorded in Catalogue des Tableaux du Cabinet de M. Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris, 1755, p. 34.
[6] See A. Somof, Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux, St. Petersburg, 1899, p. 112-113.
[7] Mellon/Mellon trust purchase date and/or date deeded to to Mellon Trust is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in Gallery Archives).
Associated Names
- Bass, Edward
- Catherine II of Russia
- Charles I, King of England
- Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
- Crozat, baron de Thiers, Louis-Antoine
- Crozat, marquis du Châtel, Louis-François
- Crozat the Younger, Pierre
- Diderot, Denis
- Escoubleau, Marquis de Sourdis, Charles d'
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Le Tessier de Montarsy, Laurent
- Matthiesen Fine Art Limited
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of
- Pembroke, Willaim Herbert, 3rd Earl of
- Sale, London
- State Hermitage Museum
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