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The Three Maries at the Tomb
Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639 - 1709)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: 1684 - 1685
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 84 x 112 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £22,500 (Total: £90,000)
Vendor: Somerville & Simpson
Review number: 3336 (1988)
Provenance:
Commissioned by John, 5th Earl of Exeter for Burghley House; by descent to, William, 3rd Marquess of Exeter; Christie's, 9th June 1888, lot 196, bought Donaldson.
Description:
Depicts the three Mary's who meet two angels at Christ's tomb, the angels sit on the tomb and point upwards. It is a moving work of devotion, painted in his prime by one of the most important painters of High Baroque Rome, showing landscape as well as figures.
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