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Saint Peter
Marco Zoppoc. 1468
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Saint Peter
- Creator: Marco Zoppo
- Date Created: c. 1468
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 50.6 x 31.4 cm (19 15/16 x 12 3/8 in.) framed: 68 x 50.8 x 6.4 cm (26 3/4 x 20 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly the church of Santa Giustina, Venice, until at least 1581. Anonymous collection or dealer, London, before 1921; Henry Harris [d. 1950], London, by 1921.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold June 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Tancred Borenius writes in 1921 that "two or three years ago my attention was drawn by Mr. Henry Harris to a half-length figure of St. Peter discovered by him in London..." ("On a Dismembered Altarpiece by Marco Zoppo", _The Burlington Magazine_ 38, no. 214 [January 1921]: 9-10). [2] The bill of sale, dated 18 June 1937, was for a number of paintings and a marble relief (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1883.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tempera on poplar panel
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