Allegory of Navigation with a Cross-Staff

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Allegory of Navigation with a Cross-Staff

Italy, 1555-1560
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 80 7/16 × 46 in. (204.31 × 116.84 cm) Framed: 85 × 51 × 3 in. (215.9 × 129.54 × 7.62 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.74.99.2)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Possibly John Campbell (1796–1862), Earl of Ormelie and 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane....
Possibly John Campbell (1796–1862), Earl of Ormelie and 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane. The Honorable Robert Baillie-Hamilton (1821–1891) and Mary Gavin Pringle (the niece of John Campbell), Langton near Duns, Berwickshire, from at least 1881, sold in 1911 to; Robert Walton Goelet (1880–1941), Ochre Court, Newport, RI, donated in 1947 to; Salve Regina College (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 12 Dec. 1973, lot 13, to); [Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, sold 1974 to]; LACMA.
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