- Inscription
- Provenance
- Exhibition History
- Bibliography
Overview
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Inscription
along right side, in pen and brown ink: Un uomo con un ornamento sul capo che / sembra una corona, ed accompagnato / da due donne, una delle quali ha un [illeg.] / [illeg.] nel capo, e l'altra tiene nelle ma- / ni alcune insegne autorevoli / Chardin / [illeg.] / LeBrun / Un uomo che amazza un / Toro che ha un corno nella fronte / tenuto forte colla sinistra mano / e colla destra immerse un pu- / gnale nel ventro / Un uomo uccide un Leone / tenuto per la chioma colla / sinistra ecc. / Portico / Pilastri / Palazzo / Capitello / di bianco marmo / Platani / Palmi / Mitra ed il sole / Persepoli, fra le sue / rovine vedesi in un bassorilievo / due animali simili ad un / cavallo, con una sola SEE COMMENTARY FOR INSCRIPTION CONTINUATION
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Provenance
La Sociéte Historique et Littéraire Polonaise, Paris (sale London, Christie's, 4 July 1972, lot 36); Seiferheld and Co., New York; William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, January, 1973; gift to NGA, 1991.
Exhibition History
- 1973
- Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975.
- 1993
- Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 25.
- 1996
- Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.
Bibliography
- 1975
- "Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2, 6-7 (illus.).
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Work of Art
- Giovanni Bellini
- Italian
- c. 1430/1435 – 1516
- Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson
- c. 1770/1773
- oil on canvas
- overall: 74.8 x 356.2 cm (29 7/16 x 140 1/4 in.)
- framed: 104.1 x 385.1 x 10.5 cm (41 x 151 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Andrew W. Mellon Collection
- 1937.1.94
- • On View
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Work of Art
- Giovanni Bellini
- Italian
- c. 1430/1435 – 1516
- Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
- 1777-1779
- oil on canvas
- overall: 74.8 x 356.2 cm (29 7/16 x 140 1/4 in.)
- framed: 104.1 x 385.1 x 10.5 cm (41 x 151 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Andrew W. Mellon Collection
- 1937.1.95
- • On View
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