The Banquet of Cleopatra and Antony

ArtistStudio of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian, 1696–1770

Datecirca 1747–1750

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions32 x 51 in. (81.3 x 129.5 cm)
Frame: 38 x 58 1/4 x 3 in. (96.5 x 148 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lunsford Long

Object numberG.56.15.1

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Provenance[Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1781-1824); his grandson Nicholas (d.1890), Munich, Castle Seeon, and Marinepalais, St. Petersburg; bequeathed 1890 to his son Nicholas (d.1928)]; Axel Beskow, Stockholm, 1917; with Siegfried Aram, New York and Los Angeles, by 1936; ["Dr. [Alfred?] Strauss" and Karl Nierendorf (1899-1947) (gallery, NYC and Los Angeles?)?]; Mr. and Mrs. Lunsford Long, Warrenton, North Carolina, 1956; given to NCMA, 1956.
Published ReferencesExhibition of Italian Paintings of the Late Renaissance and Baroque Period (exhibition catalogue) (Portland, OR: Portland Museum of Art, 1936), cat. no. 16, illus. (b-w).

W. R. Valentiner, "Tiepolo, 'The Banquet of Cleopatra,'" North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Spring 1957), discussed 11, illus. (b-w) fig. 8.

Raleigh, NC: The News and Observer, (October 15, 1956) (in curatorial file).

Minor Masters…Renaissance…Post-Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (Columbus, GA: Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1964), cat. no. 23, illus.

Man: Glory, Jest and Riddle (exhibition catalogue) (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1964), cat. no. 222.

Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 34, illus. (b-w).

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 36.Exhibition HistoryPortland, OR, "Exhibition of Italian Paintings of the Late Renaissance and Baroque Period," December 4-31, 1936, cat. no. 16, illus. (b-w).

Columbus, GA, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, "Minor Masters ... Renaissance ... Post- Renaissance," January 12-February 22, 1964, cat. no. 23, illus.

San Francisco, CA. Palace of the Legion of Honor. "Man: Glory, Jest and Riddle," November 10, 1964-January 3, 1965, cat. no. 222.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 13, 2024.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," July 8, 2024-present. Object Rights Statement

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