Neptune Calming the Tempest

Artists

Dimensions

48.9 x 64.1 cm (19 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.) frame: 65.5 x 81 cm (25 13/16 x 31 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Unidentified collector, sold; [his sale, Prestage and Hobbs, London, February 20, 1761, lot 73]. Duke of Grafton, (by 1882-1923) sold; [his sale, Christie's, London, July 13, 1923, lot 141]; to Martin Sternberg, Amsterdam (1923-1932), sold; [through Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, October 25, 1932, lot 512]; to [Paul Cassirer]. Siegfried Kramarsky (by 1933-1942), Amsterdam sold; to Fogg Art Museum 1942. NOTES: 1. Per exhibition label on the verso of the painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882 as property of the Duke of Grafton. 2. Exhibited as property of Kramarsky in 1933. 3. 1937 Pantheon article cites the work as collection of Kramarsky