The Continence of Scipio
Artist
Sebastiano Ricci
Italian, 1659–1734
Datecirca 1708–1710
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions76 x 96 in. (193 x 243.8 cm)
Frame: 78 1/4 x 99 1/4 x 3 in. (198.8 x 252.1 x 7.6 cm)
Frame: 78 1/4 x 99 1/4 x 3 in. (198.8 x 252.1 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.164
On View
On viewBrooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, Sebastiano and Marco Ricci in America, 1965-66, cat. no. 62, illus. 51, (catalogue only, not included in exhibition).
Jeffrey Daniels, Sebastiano Ricci (Sussex: Wayland Publishers, 1976), 103-104, illus. fig. 209.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), illus. (b-w) 204.
Art Taylor, "Museum Loans," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), mentioned 7.
Exhibition HistoryWilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Eighteenth Century Paintings and Sculptures From the North Carolina Museum of Art," April 21, 2002 – March 30, 2003.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection Reimagined," July 8, 2024-present.
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