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| Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy |
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| Painting in frame: overall |
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| Painting in frame: corner |
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| Painting in frame: angled corner |
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| Profile drawing of frame. W 8 3/16 in. 21 cm (T. Newbery) |
Artist:Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) (Italian, Conegliano ca. 1459–1517/18 Venice or Conegliano)
Date:ca. 1513
Medium:Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions:50 1/2 x 48 in. (128.3 x 121.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Given the elevated position of Saint Anthony Abbot (ca. 251–356), flanked by Saints Roch (protector of victims of the plague) and Lucy (patron of the blind: she holds an oil lamp), this altarpiece may have been painted about 1513 for the brothers of Saint Anthony, who ministered to plague victims. As a work of Bellini it belonged to Empress Josephine Bonaparte, testifying to the enduring reputation of Cima’s probable teacher
Provenance
[Louis Varisco, Paris, in 1811; cat., 1811, unnumbered, pp. 7–8, as by Giovanni Bellini]; Josephine Bonaparte, Empress of France, Malmaison (until d. 1814; inv., 1814, no. 1162, as by Bellini); her son, Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, later Herzog von Leuchtenberg, Munich and St. Petersburg (1814–d. 1824; sale, Augsburg, 1819, no. 31, as by Bellini, not sold; sale, Augsburg, 1820, no. 24, as by Bellini, not sold; cat., 1825, no. 63, as by Gian Francesco Caroto); Herzogen von Leuchtenberg, Munich and St. Petersburg (from 1824; cat., 1851, no. 49, as by Caroto); George, Herzog von Leuchtenberg, Prince Romanovsky, St. Petersburg (by 1903–until at least 1905); [Sulley and Co., London, until 1907; sold to MMA]
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