Desk
Artist
Angiolo Barbetti
(Italian, 1805 - 1873)
CultureItalian
Date1851
MediumWalnut
DimensionsOverall: 69 × 40 × 18 inches (175.26 × 101.6 × 45.72 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Lillian M. Diveley Fund and with funds contributed by Susan and James Birt, Walker La Brunerie, and Meredith and Jonathan Sternberg
Object number2024.42
Signed"Angelo Barbetti/A Firenze An. 1851"
InscribedOn keyhole cover: "A.B.F."
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 126
Collections
DescriptionFall-front desk with central relief panel of King Priam of Troy begging Achilles for the body of his son Hector, supported by hybrid monsters and a carved crest containing emblems of the Trubetsky family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.ProvenanceProbably with Prince Pierre (Pyotr Petrovich) Troubetsky (1822-1892), Florence, Italy, after 1851;
Probably by inheritance to his son, Pierre Troubetsy (1864-1936);
By family descent within Troubetsky family, France;
Sold "Angers: Art et Decoration," Ivoire Angers/Saumur, Wednesday, October 20, 2021, lot 366;
Purchased from that sale by Cole Myers, Myers & Monroe, Paris and Kansas City;
Purchased by Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024
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