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Funeral of the Virgin
Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian, Veronese, 1480–1555
Giovanni Caroto, Italian, 1488–ca. 1566
Giovanni Caroto, Italian, 1488–ca. 1566
y1935-34
Information
Title
Funeral of the Virgin
Medium
Oil (?) on fir panel
Dimensions
65 × 70 cm (25 9/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
frame: 88.9 × 91.1 × 7.6 cm (35 × 35 7/8 × 3 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-34
Place Made
Europe, Verona
Culture
Type
Moses Michelangelo Guggeneheim (1837-1914), Venice; Purchased by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) from "Guggenheim Collection Sale," Palazzo Balbi, in Venice, Italy, September 30, 1913 (Lot 826B, as Cavazzola, for frs 5,170 with 826A) for Henry White Cannon (1850-1934); by descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
[Date of sale erroneously given in Richter 1936 as October 6, 1913]
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Catalogue de la collection de M. le Comm. M. Guggenheim, Venise: objects d'art et de haute curiosité, tableaux et dessins de maîtres anciens : ameublement et autres objects décoratifs en style ancien exécutés en marbe, en bronze et en bois, (Munich: Hugo Helbing, 1913)., no. 826
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1932)., p. 268
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 15; p. 21-22; fig. 15
- Carlo Del Bravo, "Per Giovan Francesco Caroto", Paragone. Arte 15, no. 173 (1964): p. 3-16., p. 6
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools, (London: Phaidon, 1968)., p. 205
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 99
- ed., Pierpaolo Brugnoli, Maestri della pittura veronese, (Verona: Banca mutua popolare di Verona, 1974)., p. 164
- The Pouncey collection: old master drawings and paintings from the collection formed by the late Philip and Myril Pouncey: ...drawings: Tuesday, January 21, 2003; paintings: Thursday, January 23, 2003, (New York: Sotheby's, 2003)., 64, lot 63, fig. 1B (illus.)
