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The Flight of Lot
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian, Venetian, 1675–1741
y1935-50
Information
Title
The Flight of Lot
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
145 x 134.8 cm (57 1/16 x 53 1/16 in.)
frame: 163 × 155 × 7 cm (64 3/16 × 61 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-50
Culture
Type
Subject
[Antonio] Marcato (?-?), Venice; Purchased from him by Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) in 1889; Purchased from him by Henry White Cannon (1850-1934) in Florence on March 10, 1906; By descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935
- Jean Paul Richter, A descriptive catalogue of old masters of the Italian school, (Florence: Galileiana, 1907-1914)., no. 6; p. 48-50
- Chandler Rathfon Post and Harold E. Wethey, A history of Spanish painting, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1930-66)., p. 408
- 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
- Egidio Martini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, (Venezia: Editizioni Marciane, 1964)., p. 171, fig. 71; p. 164, no. 70
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p. 104
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 141 (illus.)
- George Knox, Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1994)., p. 254, 366
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), illustrated p. 330
