Laughing Boy
Laughing Boy
- Artist
- Giuseppe Angeli
- Artist Dates
- 1712-1798
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Laughing Boy
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 35.9 cm (17-1/8 x 14-1/8 in)
- K Number
- K1587
- Repository
- Mead Art Museum
- Accession Number
- AC 1961.74
- Notes
Provenance
Baroness Gisele Gautsch, Vienna. [1] (E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York) by 1939 until at least 1944. [2] (Paul Drey, New York); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1948; gift to the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College in 1961, no. AC 1961.74. [1] Baroness Gautsch might be the wife of the Austrian Minister Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn [1851-1918]. [1] Lent by Silberman to European Masters from the 15th to the 18th Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 8-29 January 1939, no. 17, as Piazzetta; and Three Baroque Masters, Baltimore Museum, 28 April - 4 June 1944, no. 36, as Piazzetta.