Alexander Condemning False Praise

1760s

Francesco de Mura

Artist, Neapolitan, 1696 - 1782

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76 x 63.4 cm (29 15/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
    framed: 94.62 x 81.28 x 5.4 cm (37 1/4 x 32 x 2 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.43

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London), by 1962.[1] purchased by Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008]; bequest to NGA.
[1] The painting appeared in Hazlitt Gallery's exhibition of May 1962, and is also listed as being with "Hazlitt Gallery" in London by Nicola Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Barocco al Rococò, Naples, 1986: 167, no. 282, fig. 339.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Baroque and Rococo: Paintings and Oil Sketches, Hazlitt Gallery, London, 1962, no. 7, repro., as A Scene from Roman History.

2016

  • In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 2016-2017, no. 38, repro.

Bibliography

1986

  • Spinosa, Nicola. Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Barocco al Rococò, Naples, 1986: 167 no. 282, fig. 339.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 19, repro. 185.

Wikidata ID

Q20178175

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