Saint Veronica with the Veil

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Saint Veronica with the Veil

circa 1652- 1653
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 39 1/2 × 29 1/2 in. (100.33 × 74.93 cm) Framed: 50 × 40 × 2 1/2 in. (127 × 101.6 × 6.35 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.84.20)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Probably Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna (1604–1666), bequeathed 1666 to his nephew; Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna (1637–1689), bequeathed 1689 to; Carlo Barberini (163

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Probably Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna (1604–1666), bequeathed 1666 to his nephew; Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna (1637–1689), bequeathed 1689 to; Carlo Barberini (1630–1704), by descent to; Francesco Barberini (1662–1738). (Sale, Florence, Sotheby’s, 22–23 Oct. 1974, lot 38, as Italian school, 17th century). [French & Co., New York, by 1981, sold 1984 to]; LACMA.
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Bibliography

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  • Spike, John T.  A brush with passion: Mattia Preti (1613-1699): paintings from North American collections in honor of the 400th anniversary of his birth.  Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art, 2013.
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  • Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg.  Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art.  New York: New York University Press, 1975.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Gozzano, Natalia. "Mattia Preti's Colonna-Barberini 'St. Veronica.'" The Burlington Magazine 140, no. 1145 (1998): 559-561
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