Currently not on view
Gates of Hell,
ca. 1703–08
Giacomo del Po, Italian, 1652–1726
y1986-82
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Information
Title
Gates of Hell
Dates
ca. 1703–08
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
126 x 101 cm (49 5/8 x 39 3/4 in.)
frame: 145 × 120.3 × 6 cm (57 1/16 × 47 3/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eula M. Ganz in memory of her husband, Paul H. Ganz
Object Number
y1986-82
Place Made
Europe, Naples
Signatures
Signed(?), lower right: Po (nearly illegible)
Culture
Type
Subject
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1966. Anonymous sale, Greenwood, London, March 6, 1806, lot 71; anonymous sale, Robins, London, July 30, 1808, lot 74; anonymous sale, Robins, London, April 10, 1809, lots 58, 59; Viancini, Venice (1966); Paul and Eula M. Ganz, New York (by 1967); Eula M. Ganz (until 1986; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
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Walter Vitzthum, "Giacomo del Po, illustrateur de Milton," L'Oeil, no. 190 (1970): p. 28-31.
, pp. 28-31 -
Donald Rabiner, The Paintings of Giacomo del Po, diss., (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1978): p. 244.
, p. 244 -
D. Rabiner, "Additions to del Po," Pantheon 36 (1978): p. 40.
, p. 40; note 3 - Arnaud Brejon de Lavergnee, "La peinture napolitaine du 18e siecle," Revue de l'art 52 (1981): p. 67-69., p. 69 ill. p. 67, fig. 7; p. 69.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 22 (illus.)
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Dwight C. Miller, "Another Drawing by Giacomo del Po for Milton's Paradise Lost," Master drawings 28, no. 2 (1990): p. 181-85.
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Donald Garstang, Master paintings, 1400-1850: Winter, 1991-92, Colnaghi, (London; New York: Colnaghi, 1991).
, cat. no. 20, p. 93. -
Donald Rabiner, "Giacomo del Po," in Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, (New York: Grove, 1996): p. 55-56.
, pp.55-56.
