Two Greyhounds
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
203 x 152 mm (8 x 6 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257121
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two Greyhounds, after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588). A copy of the two dogs in the foreground of Veronese's Marriage of Cana formerly in the refectory of the San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, but now a relic of the Napoleonic booty from Italy in the Louvre, Paris.
Provenance
Given to William Bankes by the Prince of Anglona, as a Velázquez, around 1814/15; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: VELASQUEZ (painted in black on fixed gilt label on frame, centred under image) Verso: Inscribed on reverse of canvas: Wm John Bankes a present from the Prince Anglona
Makers and roles
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist Diego Velázquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660), artist