Diana and Callisto

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Diana and Callisto

France, 1725-1728
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 29 15/16 × 37 3/8 in. (76 × 95 cm) Frame: 44 × 51 × 3 1/2 in. (111.76 × 129.54 × 8.89 cm)
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.72)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Bought by an English collector ca. 1748. Nathaniel Webb (1725–1786), by 1767. Richard Hulse (ca.

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Bought by an English collector ca. 1748. Nathaniel Webb (1725–1786), by 1767. Richard Hulse (ca. 1725–1803) (sale, London, Christie’s, 22 Mar. 1806, lot 23, sold to); Colonel Thornton. Mrs. Campbell Johnson (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 21 Feb. 1945, lot 135, sold to); Mrs. M. G. Wengraf, by descent in 1965 to; [Alex Wengraf, London, sold 2000 to]; LACMA.

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Bibliography

  • Wine, Humphrey. The Eighteenth Century French Paintings. London: National Gallery Company, 2018.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.