Cardinal Muzzio Gallo (1721–1801)

Artist Anton von Maron Austrian, 1733–1808, active in Rome 1755–1808

Date1785

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions82 1/4 x 46 1/2 in. (208.9 x 118.1 cm)
Frame: 91 1/4 x 55 1/4 in. (231.8 x 140.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the George and Lucy Finch Trust, the North Carolina State Art Society, and the State of North Carolina, by exchange

Object number82.2

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ProvenanceMessinger Collection; P & G Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London; sold to NCMA 1982.Published ReferencesD'Acchiardi, The Messinger Collection (1910), no. 130, illus. pl. LXII.

Hermann Voss, Die Malerei der Barock in Rom (Berlin: 1924), illus. pl. 427.

"Purchases Approved for Museum Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar (May-June 1982), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 12.

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, 1983), illus. (color) 19.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 206.

Isabella Schmittmann, Anton von Maron (1731–1808) (Ph.D. dissertation, Munich University: Published by Scaneg, Munich, 2013), no. 27, discussed 147–149, illus. (color) 548, fig. 25.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, "Facets of Faces: Functions of Portraits," September 1, 1989-June 1, 1990. Object Rights Statement

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