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Object Data

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 72 x 111 cm (28 3/8 x 43 11/16 in.)
overall (including attached pieces): 74 x 113 cm (29 1/8 x 44 1/2 in.)

framed: 122.9 x 160 cm (48 3/8 x 63 in.)

Accession Number

1937.1.28

Artists / Makers

Vittore Carpaccio (painter) Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526

Image Use

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Detail Information

Provenance

Edward Solly [1776-1844], Berlin; purchased 1821 for the Königliche Museen (painting collection installed 1904 in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum), Berlin; sold 1924 to (Charles Albert de Burlet, Berlin). (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence and Rome).[1] (Arthur J. Sulley & Co., London). acquired 1927 by Otto H. Kahn [1867-1934], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.

Exhibition History

2016
Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance, Denver Art Museum; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2016-2017, no. 31, repro.
2022
Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2022-2023, no. 86, repro.

Bibliography

1830
Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Verzeichniss der Gemälde-Sammlung des Köninglichen Museums zu Berlin. Berlin, 1830: 29, no. 61.
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):282, fig. 170.
1926
Venturi, Adolfo. “La Fuga in Egitto di Antonello da Messina.” L’Arte 29 (1926): 121-123, pls. 1, 2, fig. 1, as by Antonello da Messina.
1931
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Carpaccio. Paris, 1931: 23-24.
1931
Mayer, August L. "Ein neues Carpaccio-Buch." Pantheon 8 (1931): 394.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 72, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1932
Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Nuovi documenti intorno a Vittore Carpaccio." Bollettino d'Arte 26 (1932): 124-125, fig. 12.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 62, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1937
Gamba, Carlo. Giovanni Bellini. Milan, 1937: 232, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1939
Bottari, Stefano. Antonello da Messina. Messina and Milan, 1939: 120 n. 46.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 82, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 19, no. 28, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 67, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1949
Dussler, Luitpold. Giovanni Bellini. Vienna, 1949: 79
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 34, repro.
1953
Bottari, Stefano. Antonello da Messina. Milan, 1953: 120 n. 46.
1955
Pignatti, Terisio. Carpaccio. Milan, 1955: 38-39, figs. 21, 22.
1957
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:36, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1958
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Carpaccio. Revised edition. Novara, 1958: 8, 15, 32.
1958
Pignatti, Terisio. Carpaccio. New York, 1958: 88-90.
1959
Bologna, Ferdinando. "Un ritratto del doge Leonardo Loredan." Arte Antica e Moderna 5 (1959): 76.
1960
Perocco, Guido. Tutta la pittura del Carpaccio. Milan, 1960: 51, pls. 70, 71.
1962
Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani. 2 vols. Venice, 1962: 1:167, fig. 656, as by Girolamo da Santacroce.
1962
Lauts, Jan. Carpaccio. Paintings and Drawings. Complete Edition. Greenwich, CT, 1962: 252-253, pl. 71.
1963
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. “Un libro su Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani.” Paragone 14, no. 167 (November 1963): 80.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 302, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
1963
Zampetti, Pietro, ed. Vittore Carpaccio. Catalogo della mostra. Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1963: XLII-LIX, fig. 9.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 23.
1966
Muraro, Michelangelo. Carpaccio. Florence, 1966: 98, as by "a good Bellini follower, probably Giovanni Mansueti."
1966
Zampetti, Pietro. Vittore Carpaccio. Florence, 1966: 77.
1967
Perocco, Guido. L'opera completa del Carpaccio. Milan, 1967: 96.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 16, repro.
1972
Pignatti, Terisio. Vittore Carpaccio. Milan, 1972: 6-7.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 54, repro.
1979
Sgarbi, Vittorio. Carpaccio. Bologna, 1979: 40, cat. 15.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:118-119; 2:pl. 81, as Attributed to Carpaccio.
1980
Waterhouse, Ellis K. “Review. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley.” The Burlington Magazine 122, no. 930 (September 1980): 637.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 203, no. 240, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 75, repro.
1989
Valcanover, Francesco. Carpaccio. Florence, 1989: 39.
1991
Humfrey, Peter. Carpaccio: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1991: 133, pl. 40.
1994
Sgarbi, Vittorio. Carpaccio. Milan, 1994: 166-169, 222, cat. 38, repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 197-200, color repro.
2010
Martin, Kathleen. “Donkey,” in The Book of Symbols. Cologne, 2010: 361, fig. 1.
2012
Fossaluzza, Giorgio. Vittore Carpaccio a Pozzale di Cadore, 1519: Le ultime opere per Venezia, Istria e Cadore. Zero Branco, 2012: 143, fig. 50.

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