Currently not on view
recto: The Baptism of Christ; verso: Portrait of a Bishop Saint
Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680–1764
y1987-73
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Title
recto: The Baptism of Christ; verso: Portrait of a Bishop Saint
Maker
Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
image (oval): 62.2 x 73.8 cm. (24 1/2 x 29 1/16 in.)
frame (oval): 91 × 77 × 6.4 cm (35 13/16 × 30 5/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle
Object Number
y1987-73
Culture
Type
Sangiorgi, Rome, 1960; Hazlitt Gallery, London, May 1963; Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, London; 1987 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian paintings: [Exhibition] May-June, 1963, (London?: Hazlitt Gallery, 1963).
- B.N., "Current and forthcoming exhibitions: London", Burlington magazine 105 no. 722 (May, 1963): p. 224-227+229-230., p. 226, fig. 37; p. 227
- Giancarlo Sestieri, "Contributi a Sebastiano Conca, II," Commentari 21 (1970): p. 122-138., p.130-131; p. 130, fig. 10 (Baptism), p. 131, fig. 11 (Bishop); discussed p. 127.
- John Maxon and Joseph J. Rishel, eds., Painting in Italy in the eighteenth century: rococo to romanticism, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1970)., no. 93; p. 223 (illus.); p. 222
- Frederick A. Broeder, The academy of Europe: Rome in the 18th century: [catalogue of exhibition] October 13-November 21, 1973, the William Benton Museum of Art, the University of Connecticut, (Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Foundation, 1973)., no. 36
- Sebastiano Conca, 1680-1764: Gaeta, Palazzo De Vio, luglio-ottobre 1981, (Gaeta: Centro storico culturale "Gaeta", 1981)., no. 42, p. 170; p. 171 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1987", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 47, no. 1 (1988): p. 30-54., pp. 32–33 (illus.)
