In a Sea Battle, Assisted by Mars, Who Swoops Down from Heaven, He Strikes The Enemy

Series TitlePreparatory Model for the Ceiling of the Sala di Marte, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Artist Pietro Berrettini, called Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596 - 1669)

Date1646

MediumPen, bistre ink, and wash with white on paper

DimensionsOverall: 15 9/16 × 34 3/4 inches (39.53 × 88.27 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number59-73/4

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

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Provenance

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868-1937), Darmstadt, Germany, late 1930s [1];

Museum in Krefeld, Germany [2];

With Joseph Fach, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by February 14, 1959;

Purchased from Fach by Adolph Loewi, Inc., Los Angeles, stock nos. 13921 and L1358, February 14-December 7, 1959 [3];

Purchased from Loewi by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] According to Adolph Loewi, Inc., in a letter to Ross Taggart, Assistant Curator, July 21, 1959, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file, these drawings “belonged up to 20 years ago to the Grandduke of Hessen in Darmstadt and then to the Museum in Krefeld which exchanged [them] for some item of special significance for their city.”

[2] Ibid.

[3] Frick Art Reference Library, New York, MS.129 Loewi-Robertson Archive, box 31, stock book 1955-1967, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

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