Angels
Angels
- Artist
- Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli
- Artist Dates
- 1458-1496
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Angels
- Date
- c. 1485
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 43.8 cm (14 x 17-1/4 in)
- K Number
- K1329
- Repository
- El Paso Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.1.10
- Notes
Provenance
Dr. Paul Mersh [1859-1932], Paris. [1] (Blakeslee Galleries, New York); (sale, American Art Association, New York, 21 April 1915, no. 5); Solomon Solis Carvalho [1856-1942]; [2] (Pinakos, Inc.); sold to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) in 1941; [3] bought by Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 21 April 1942 as Melozzo da Forli; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1943; deaccessioned 1957 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to El Paso Museum of Art, no. 1961.1.10. [1] Mersh was a son-in-law of the art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer and vice-consul of Luxembourg, residing in Paris. He is said to have brought both K1329 and its companion K1330 to the United States in c. 1885. [2] Carvalho was a journalist and later manager of William Randolph Hearst Publications. [3]According to the M. Knoedler and Co Records, Getty Research Center, call number 2012.M.54, Series IV, Box 128, Knoedler Number A-2400/1