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Attributed to Giulio Campagnola Venus and Adonis Oil on panel 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (32 x 25 cm) Provenance:R... Venus and Adonis Oil on panel 12 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (32 x 25 cm) Provenance: Conte Ludovico Girolamo Caprara (1621-1695), estate inventory, 1710 His nephew, Conte Niccolo Caprara (1665?-1724) Conte Francesco Raimondo Montecuccoli Caprara (1702-1780) Conte Carlo Caprara (1755-1816), Bologna Sold with the Palazzo Caprara, 1806, to "Intendenzza dei beni della Corona" Given by order of Napoleon to the Emperor's step-granddaughter, Josephine de Beauharnais (1807-1876) Acquired by marriage to the above by Prince Oskar of Sweden Sold in 1837 to Marchese Raffaele de Ferrari (1803-1877) His wife, the Duchess of Galliera Presented to Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d'Orleans, 5th son of Louis Philippe of France By inheritance to Don Antonio d'Orleans y Borbon, 4th Duke of Galliera Literature: M. Zancolich, Il Collezionismo nella famiglia Caprara...(thesis, Univerisity of Bologna), 2002, 108-09, nos. 5 and 314, p. 154, illus. Attributed to Girolamo da Treviso Il Giovane (1497-1554) by Bernard Berenson, this work has recently been compared to a work attributed to Giulio Campagnola by Keith Christiansen in "A Proposal for Giulio Campagnola pittore " in Hommage a Michel Laclotte: Etudes sur la peinture du Moyen age et de la Renaissance, Milan and Paris, 1994, 341-5, p. XIV. C
Panel cradeled. Scattered inpainting in the sky, on the rocks and on the figures.