View of the Mall in Saint James's Park
after 1709-1710
Painter
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 114.1 x 195.2 cm (44 15/16 x 76 7/8 in.)
framed: 129.8 x 210.8 x 6.9 cm (51 1/8 x 83 x 2 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1970.17.132
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Francis Astley-Corbett, 4th Bt. [1859-1937], Brigg, Lincs.; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 8 July 1927, no. 66, as by Marcellus Laroon); purchased by (M. Knoedler & Co);[1] sold 1 April 1936 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], Syosset, New York (as Laroon);[2] bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] Art Prices Current, n.s. 6 (1926-1927): 438 nr. 9494.
[2] The Bruce Ledger, NGA curatorial files, no. 83, gives the purchase date and lists the painting's location, as of 1 August 1956, as Syosset, Long Island, where Mrs. Bruce had an estate.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1940
Loan Exhibitions. Paintings of London and Paris for the Benefit of the British War Relief Society, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., and Durand Ruel Galleries, New York, 1940, no. 1 (shown at Knoedler), as by Laroon.
1986
Extended loan for use by Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 1986-1987.
1987
Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760, Tate Gallery, London, 1987-1988, no. 9, color repro., as Attributed to Marco Ricci.
1994
Extended loan for use by Justice Anthony Kennedy, The Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1994-1996.
Bibliography
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 304, repro., as Attributed to Marco Ricci.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 351, repro., as Attributed to Marco Ricci.
1991
Scarpa Sonino, Annalisa. Marco Ricci. Milan, 1991: 119, 137, no. 113, fig. 56, as contemporary copy.
1993
Delneri, Annalia. In Dario Succi and Annalia Delneri, Marco Ricci e il paesaggio veneto del settecento. Exh. cat. Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno. Milan, 1993: 104-105, fig. 8, as 18th Century copy.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 220-223, repro. 221.
Wikidata ID
Q20177750