Venus Epithalamia
1871
Artists
Dimensions
37.5 x 26.9 cm (14 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.) frame: 59.1 x 48.3 x 4.4 cm (23 1/4 x 19 x 1 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Euphrosyne Cassavetti as a wedding gift for Marie Spartali (Stillman), 1871; Marie Spartali Stillman, sold; [through Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1905], sold; to Baron de Turckheim, sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, June 9, 1911, lot 87]; to Charles Fairfaix Murray, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York and Lenox, 1912, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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