Diana and Endymion
c. 1675/1680
Artist, Neapolitan, 1634 - 1705

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 149.2 x 164 cm (58 3/4 x 64 9/16 in.)
framed: 170.2 x 185.4 x 9.2 cm (67 x 73 x 3 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1991.20.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(J.A. Tooth, London); purchased 24 May 1960 by (P. & D. Colnaghi, London); (sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1967, no. 147);[1] Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; gift 1991 to NGA.
[1] The name of the consignor to the 1967 sale was kindly supplied by Chloe Stead of Sotheby's (e-mail, 22 March 2010), and Colnaghi's source and purchase date were kindly supplied by Livia Schaafsma of that firm (e-mail, 23 March 2010); both messages in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Extended loan, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1967-1973.
1973
Extended loan, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1973-1987.
1987
Extended loan, Princeton University Art Museum, 1987-1991.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 76-77, color repro.
2009
Lágrimas de Eros [Tears of Eros], Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, 2009-2010, no. 82, repro.
Bibliography
1987
Colton, Judith. In A Taste for Angels. Neapolitan Paintings in North America 1650-1750. Exh. cat. Yale Univ. Art Gallery, New Haven; John and Mable Ringling Mus. of Art, Sarasota, Florida; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. Sarasota, 1987: 138.
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: 117-120, color repro. 119.
2003
Ferrari, Oreste, and Giuseppe Scavizzi. Luca Giordano. Naples, 2003: 58, no. A0113, color repro.
2011
Manning, Peter J. "Wordsworth's 'Illustrated Books and Newspapers' and Media of the City." In Peter, Larry H., ed. Romanticism and the City. New York, 2011: 233, 240 n. 22.
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: 10, 19, repro. 184.
Inscriptions
lower right: Jordanus / F.
Wikidata ID
Q20177650