Currently not on view
Allegory of Autumn,
ca. 1615-20
Nicolas Régnier, French, 1591–1667
y1983-6
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Title
Allegory of Autumn
Dates
ca. 1615-20
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54 x 169 cm (21 1/4 x 66 9/16 in.)
frame: 68 x 180.5 x 5 cm (26 3/4 x 71 1/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, with funds given by George L. Craig, Jr., Class of 1921, and Mrs. Craig, in memory of James F. Oates, Jr., Class of 1921
Object Number
y1983-6
Culture
Type
A British family trust (until 1956; sale, Christie’s London, February 17, 1956, lot 72); Arcade Gallery, London (in 1956); Benedict Nicolson, London (1956–1978); Alex Wengraf, Limited (in 1983; sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Ancient and modern pictures and drawings; the property of Major Ynyr A. Burges, D.L.: also old pictures and drawings from other sources ... Feb. 17, 1956, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 1956). , lot 72
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- Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée, et. al., Dopo Caravaggio: Bartolomeo Manfredi e la manfrediana methodus, (Milano: Mondadori, 1987).
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- Annick Lemoine, "L'iter di an caravaggesco nordico: Nicolas Régnier e il movimiento naturalista," Paragone Arte. 51, no. 601 (Mar., 2000): p. 43-72., image not used
