Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast
Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast
- Artist
- Dosso Dossi
- Artist Dates
- active 1512-1542
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast
- Date
- c. 1520
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 58.7 x 87.6 cm (23 1/8 x 34 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K448
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.250
- Notes
Provenance
Commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Castello, Ferrara, by c. 1521; by inheritance through the Este Collection, in Camerino d'Alabastro, until 1608; Borghese collection, Rome, until at least 1693. (Kunsthandel A.G., Lucerne); sold 1926 to (Julius Böhler, Munich and Luzerne). [1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome, from the early 1920s); sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Inventory card no. 55-26, Böhler records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copy in NGA curatorial files) [2] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files.