The Descent into Limbo

Artists

Dimensions

image: 35.9 x 43 cm (14 1/8 x 16 15/16 in.) panel: 37.8 x 47.1 x 3.7 cm (14 7/8 x 18 9/16 x 1 7/16 in.) frame: 49.3 x 56.2 x 8 cm (19 7/16 x 22 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Purchased by William Hopetoun Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk, Rome, c. 1860, by inheritance to his son; George John Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk, sold?; to R. Langton Douglas, London, sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, 1915, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1922. Notes: 1. The 8th Earl of Northesk was a connoisseur who lived in the Palazzo Poli in Rome for about twenty years.