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Name:
The Italian Comedians
Artist:
Philippe Mercier (French, b.1689, d.1760), artist
Date:
Circa 1720-Circa 1725
Medium:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
41 x 50 1/2 in. (104.1 x 128.3 cm)
Classification:
Painting
Department:
European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Edwards
Provenance:
Count Leopold de Beaufort, Brussel [1]. Peter Arrell Brown Widener [1834-1915], Philadelphia, by at least 1900-1915, by descent to [2]; Joseph E. Widener [1872-1943], Philadelphia, 1915-June 20-24, 1944, sold at his sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, June 20-24, 1944, lot 724 [3]. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Edwards, Cincinnati, ?-1947, given to; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1947-present. Notes: [1] Included on a brass plaque from the frame, CAM conservation files. Also noted in Frick Art Reference Library, correspondence, April 12, 1948. [2] Published in Catalogue of Paintings forming the Private Collection of P. A. B. Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia, vol 2, Paris: Goupil & Co., 1900, no. 281. Also indicated on a brass plaque from the frame, CAM conservation files. [3] The auction house has no record of the buyer.
Accession No:
1947.520

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