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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

not including a further 20 cm. of painted canvas folded over the bottom of the stretcher

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed 'OMNIA VANITAS' (lower left, of the column)

Condition:

in a composition frame

Exhibited:

London, Bethnal Green Branch Museum, The Bute Collection , 1883, no. 255, as 'Veronese'

Literature:

J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings lent for exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T, London, 1883, no. 255, as 'Veronese'. P. Watson, Wisdom and Strength. The Biography of a Renaissance Masterpiece , London, Sydney, Auckland and Johannesburg, 1990, pp. 210 and 359

Provenance:

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), framed c. 1772/4 to be hung at Luton Park, possibly over one of the chimneys in the Saloon where Reynolds' portraits of the 3rd Earl and his wife were subsequently placed, and by descent to his son, John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (1744-1814), Luton Hoo, where recorded in the inventories of 1799, p. 41 (Saloon), and 1822, no. 79 (Saloon), and by descent to, John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933-1993); (†) Christie's, London, 9 December 1994, lot 343 (£23,000), when acquired by the present owner