The Triumph of Venice
The Triumph of Venice
- Artist
- Pompeo Batoni
- Artist Dates
- 1708-1787
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Triumph of Venice
- Date
- 1737
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 174.3 x 286.1 cm (68-5/8 x 112-5/8 in)
- K Number
- K2149
- Repository
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- GL.60.17.60
- Notes
Provenance
Commissioned by Marco Foscarini [1696-1763], Venetian Ambassador to the Holy See from 1736-1740, Rome and Venice, before 1745; Girolamo Manfrin [1742-1802], Venice, sold 1856; possibly private collection, Trieste; possibly private collection, Vienna; acquired 1857 in Vienna by an American diplomat. Julia Lorillard Butterfield [1824-1913], New York and Cold Spring-on the-Hudson; (sale, New Galleries, New York, 3 April, 1916, no. 146); Marcel Jules Rougeron [1875-1958]. (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 May 1955, no. 126). (International Financing Company, Panama); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 30 November 1956; gift 1961 to the North Carolina Museum of Art, no. GL.60.17.60.