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Memento Mori: Death Comes to the Table

ArtistAttributed to Giovanni Martinelli Italian, 1600 or 1604–1659

Datecirca 1630–1638

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions44 15/16 x 62 3/16 in. (114.1 x 158 cm)
Frame: 52 3/4 x 70 1/8 in. (134 x 178.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), by exchange

Object number2013.17

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ProvenanceCardinal Carlo de’ Medici, by 1637 (inventory, 1637: “Un quadro entrovi più figure ad un Convito con la Morte che viene a dusturbar I loro contenti” – “A painting with a number of figures dining, and Death who comes to disturb their enjoyment”); Cardinal Carlo de’ Medici collection, inventory 1647 (“Quadro entrovi un concerto di femmine et huomini che a uno li si presenta la morte mostrandoli il fine della sua vita col loriolo” – “ A painting with a concert of women and men, one of whom is addressed by Death, who shows him the end of his life with an hourglass,” Archivio di Stato Firenze, Possessioni 4279, cc. 9r, 46v); Roberto Longhi collection, Florence, 1940s; private collection, Rome; sold Porro & C. [auction house], Milan, September 5, 2007; with Galerie G. Sarti, Paris, 2007–2013; sold to NCMA, 2013.

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