Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of her Husband, Mausolus

Artist, attributed to: Francesco Furini (Italian, 1603–1646)
Artist, attributed to: Felice Ficherelli (Italian, 1605–ca. 1669)

ca. 1630

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 31 1/4 × 26 1/4 in. (79.4 × 66.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter L. Ehrich, Ph. B. 1899, and Harold L. Ehrich, B.A. 1902, in memory of their father, Louis R. Ehrich, B.A. 1869

Accession Number

1952.24.1

Geography

Made in Florence, Italy

Culture

Italian, Florence

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Henry F. Price Collection, Riverside, Connecticut, by 1941 (as unknown artist, "Portrait of a Young Woman as Circe"); William Morris Tilden Collection, Saranac Lake, New York, by 1952 (as Italian, 17th century, "Sophonisba Taking Poison").
Bibliography
  • Clarice Innocenti, Women in power: Caterina and Maria de' Medici: the return to Florence of two queens of France, exh. cat. (Florence, Italy: Mandragora, 2008), 174, no. 37, ill
  • Sandro Bellesi, Cesare Dandini (Torino, Italy: Compagnia di belle arti, 1996), 192–193, no. 16, fig. 16
  • Giuseppe Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento (Fiesole, Italy: OpusLibri, 1983), 53
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 601
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Subject

ashes husband

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