Orpheus and Eurydice | Yale University Art Gallery

1596–97

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: unframed: 84 1/2 × 65 9/16 in. (214.6 × 166.5 cm)
Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund, Robert Lehman Foundation Acquisition Fund for Early European and Modern and Contemporary Art, and Director’s Fund, by exchange
Accession Number: 2019.29.1
Culture: Italian, Bologna
Period: 16th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

Commissioned for the Palazzo Lambertini, Bologna, probably in 1596, for 20 scudi;
Sold before 1678 for 300 scudi to a French private collection;
Anonymous sale, Brussels, Beaux-Arts, 14-15 May 1996, lot 86;
Sheldon Fish, Canada;
New York, Sotheby’s, 30 January 1998, lot 117 (bought in);
Sold privately to Mark Fisch, New York

Bibliography

"Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 112–13, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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