Death of Actaeon
Artist
Agostino Carracci
Italian, 1557–1602
Date1584–1586
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions49 x 72 in. (124.5 x 182.9 cm)
Frame: 55 x 77 5/8 x 3 1/4 in. (139.7 x 197.2 x 8.3 cm)
Frame: 55 x 77 5/8 x 3 1/4 in. (139.7 x 197.2 x 8.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.150
On View
Not on viewProvenanceDonnoli collection, Bologna, 17th century; Benjamin West, sold by his sons at Christie’s, London, 23 June 1820, lot 85, and May 28, 1824, as The Death of Actaeon, sold again by the family at Christie’s, London, March 19, 1898, lot 157 as A Grand Stag Hunt; Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower [cf. NCMA Giordano, Moses], about 1900 [source: Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, 1986]; with David M. Koester, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesCarlo Cesare Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, Vol. 1, Parte Terza (Bologna: Tipografia Guidi all' Ancora, 1841; Bologna: Arnaldo Forno Editore n.d.), 355.
Joseph Farrington, The Farrington Diary (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1923), 157 (as Hunting by Titian).
William T. Whitley, Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-99 (Boston and London: The Medici Society, 1929), ch. 24, text 33-34 (purchased by Benjamin West, as by Titian).
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 180, illus. (b-w).
Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 42.
Helumt von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), 449, fn. 1 to fig. 522. Also: fn. 1 to fig 123.
Daniele Benati, ed. 1609–2009. Anibale Carracci: due opera per un centenario (Bologna: Edisai edizioni and Musei Civici d’Arte Antica, 2009), 24, illus. (color) 29.
Jonathan Yarker, “Copies and the Taste for Titian in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain,” in The Reception of Titian in Britain: From Reynolds to Ruskin, Peter Humfrey, ed. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), briefly discussed 50, illus. (b-w) 51, fig. 11.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, England, Royal Academy, 1902 (as school of Giorgione).
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