The Beheading of Saint Paul

Artist Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598 - 1654)

Date17th century

MediumEarthenware

DimensionsOverall: 24 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (62.87 × 6.99 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number67-9

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On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Italian Paintings and Sculptures of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries, Heim Gallery, London, June 7^th-August 31^st, 1966, no. 51, as Decapitation of St. Paul.

Provenance

With Artibus S.A., by March 10, 1967;

Purchased from Artibus S.A. by Heim Gallery, London, March 10, 1967-March 14, 1967 [1];

Purchased from Heim Gallery, through S.O.C.O.T.A. (Société pour le Commerce des Tableaux), Geneva, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1967.

NOTES: [1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Heim Gallery Records, box 202, folder 1.

Published References

“Masters in the News,” Art News 65, no. 6 (October 1966): 24, (repro.).

Italian Paintings and Sculptures of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries, exh. cat. (London: Heim Gallery, 1966), 17, (repro.), as Decapitation of St. Paul.

Jennifer Montagu, Alessandro Algardi, vol. 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), as The Beheading of St. Paul.

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