Raphael_-_Saint_George_and_the_Dragon_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Summary
Raphael : Saint George and the Dragon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q5597
Details on Google Art Project |
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Title |
Saint George and the Dragon
title QS:P1476,en:"Saint George and the Dragon"
label QS:Len,"Saint George and the Dragon"
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Saint George | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1506
date QS:P571,+1506-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium |
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
oil
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 285 mm (11.22 in); width: 215 mm (8.46 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,285U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,215U174789
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q214867
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Accession number |
1937.1.26
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Object history |
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke [1580 1630], Wilton House, Wiltshire, by 1627; possibly his brother, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke [1584 1649/1650], Wilton House; given either by the 3rd Earl or the 4th Earl between 1628 and 1639 to Charles I, King of England [d. 1649];[1] (Charles I [Commonwealth] sale, Somerset House, London, 19 December 1651); purchased by Edward Bass.[2] Charles d'Escoubleau, Marquis de Sourdis [d. 1666], possibly acquired from Bass.[3] Laurent Le Tessier de Montarsy, by 1729; Pierre Crozat [1665 1740], Paris, by 1729;[4] by inheritance to his nephews, first to Louis François Crozat, marquis du Châtel [1691 1750], Paris, and then [on Louis François' death without a male heir] to Louis Antoine Crozat, baron de Thiers [1700 1770];[5] the latter's heirs; purchased 1772, through Denis Diderot [1713 1784] as an intermediary, by Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729 1796], for the Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg;[6] purchased March 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[7] gift 1937 to NGA.
[2] According to O. Miller, "The Inventories and Valuations of the King's Goods, 1649 1651," Journal of the Walpole Society 43 (1970 1972): 258. [3] According to N. Le Clerc and J. Colomsat, Cabinet des Singularitez D'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture, et Graveure , Paris, 1699: 66 67. [4] Cited by F. R. Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings , 2 vols., Washington, 1979: 1:394, as documented in the Recueil des Stampes...dans le Cabinet du Roi... , Volume I, 1763: 13. [5] Recorded in Catalogue des Tableaux du Cabinet de M. Crozat, Baron de Thiers , Paris, 1755: 34. [6] See A. Somof, Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux , Saint Petersburg, 1899: 112 113. [7] Mellon/Mellon trust purchase date and/or date deeded to to Mellon Trust is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in Gallery Archives). |
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Notes | More info at museum site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | hwGXaBhHtRkZIg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level |
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