Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
View #1 front right profile left rear left profile b&w, detail of King, right
This imposing picture, one of Fei’s most accomplished, is completely intact, with its original engaged frame richly decorated with gilded pastiglia and small cabochon stones alternating with medallions of verre églomisé (see Eisler 1961 for a discussion of this technique)
Oxford, 1932, p. 183. [F.
Owned by S. Simonian, Hamburg Germany, before 2013. Published 1997 and 2003, exhibited in Frankfurt in 1999 and Vienna in 2003 and published in exhibition catalogs. Purchased from Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 2013
Burial Customs in Roman Egypt, p. 128, pl. 16.3.
Inscription: „To the spirits of the dead. To the most saintly Cominia Tyche, his most chaste and loving wife, [from] Lucius Annius Festus. [She] died at the age of twenty-seven years, eleven months, twenty-eight days
The Art Bulletin, 14(1): p. 33. Richter, Gisela M. A. 1938.
Glass-Stained Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1936 Object Number: 36.39.1a, b
Until 1899, collection of Henry Hoffmann (1823-1897), Paris; May 1899, purchased by Henri de Morgan at the Hoffmann sale at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 78); 1899-1901, collection of Henri de Morgan (1854-1909), Paris; acquired in 1901, purchased at the de Morgan sale at the American Art Galleries, New York (lot 67)
Painter has chosen a later moment in the Troilos story than the Painter of London B
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
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The Painting: In 1873, the great opera baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure commissioned from Degas a picture depicting ballerinas of the Opera ballet corps at an examination or dance class (Pantazzi 1988)
Paris, 1924, ill. opp. p. 96, as "La répétition au foyer de la danse". J. B.
Possibly between 1787-1790, acquired by Sir William Hamilton (British Envoy and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples), Naples; from the late 1780’s to 1801, possibly in the collection of Sir William Hamilton; 1801-1917, vase and lid probably in the possession of the Hope Family, at Deepdene, Surrey, England (1801-1831 with Thomas Hope; 1831-1862 with Henry Thomas Hope; 1862-1877 with Mrs
Classification: Vases Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.230.14a, b
Inscription: (on each corner and center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on dog collar; twice): AE(on dog collar bearing arms; twice): AMarking: Arms (on dog collar on right): Quarterly, 1 and 4, barry of six or and azure, the first two bars debruised by three roses gules, seeded proper; 2 and 3, or, three escutcheons gules
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929. p. 326. Rorimer, James J.
