The Three Maries at the Tomb

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639 - 1709)

Fitzwilliam Museum

1684 - 1685

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.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 84 x 112 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £22500 ( Total: £90,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1988
• Vendor: Somerville & Simpson

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.

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