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Paolo Caliari Veronese
Allegory of Navigation with an Astrolabe1555-1560

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Mediterranean Crossings
Oil painting of a muscular, bare-chested elderly man with gray hair and beard, seated and studying a circular diagram, leaning on a carved stone column capital
Artist or Maker
Paolo Caliari Veronese
Italy, Venice, 1528-1588
Title
Allegory of Navigation with an Astrolabe
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1555-1560
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 80 × 44 3/8 in. (203.2 × 112.7 cm) Framed: 85 × 51 × 3 in. (215.9 × 129.54 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.74.99.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
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.
Selected Bibliography
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.