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Mattia Preti
Saint Veronica with the Veilcirca 1652- 1653

Not on view
Oil painting, waist-up figure of a pale-skinned woman in a translucent white veil holding open a large cloth printed with a man's face
Artist or Maker
Mattia Preti
Italy, Calabria, 1613-1699
Title
Saint Veronica with the Veil
Date Made
circa 1652- 1653
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
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)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.84.20
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

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.

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.