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Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Artist/Maker (Italian, active 1495–1540)
Dateca. 1515
MediumOil on panel, mounted on mahogany
DimensionsOverall: 29 7/8 × 21 1/8 in. (75.9 × 53.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object number1961.81
Status
On view
ProvenanceConte Ferroni, Florence. Edouard Aynard [1837-1923], Lyon and Paris; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-4 December 1913, no. 50); purchased by Eymonnaud.¹ (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome and Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 September 1939; by gift 1961 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ¹According to annotated sale catalog in Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art Library. [Provenance information provided by the Kress Collection Provenance Research Project and the National Gallery of Art]Exhibition History
The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection: A Gift of Ten Italian Paintings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 16, 1961 - 1962-03 )
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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