Morpheus and Cupid
Marcantonio Franceschini (1648–1729)
1692/1700
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- Material/technique
- oil on canvas, unlined
- Measurements
- 87 × 259 cm
- Acquisition
- acquired in 2000 by Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
- Artists/makers/authors
- Marcantonio Franceschini
- Inventory number
- GE 11
- Provenance
- Commissioned from the artist by Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein in 1692; 22 Jan. 1924 Kuderna, Vienna; 30 Mar. 2000 Dorotheum, Vienna, lot 43 (as Antonio Bellucci); acquired in 2000 from Dover Street Gallery, London
- Iconography
- Morpheus and Cupid
Jacob von Falke, Katalog der fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bilder-Galerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien, Wien 1873 , S. 2, Kat. 11
Dwight C. Miller, Franceschini's Drawings for the Liechtenstein Garden Palace 1977, Abb. 4
V. W. Callahan, Comments on the Iconography of Six Engravings by Meloni after Franceschini, in: Record of The Art Museum Princeton University 38 1979, S. 10, Abb. 12
Dwight C. Miller, Marcantonio Franceschini and the Liechtensteins. Prince Johann Adam Andreas and the Decoration of the Garden Palace at Rossau - Vienna, Cambridge 1991, S. 43, 44, 89, Nr. 24, Abb. 73
Ausst.-Kat. Der Fürst als Sammler. Neuerwerbungen unter Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), Liechtenstein Museum, Wien 12.2.2010–24.8.2010, erschienen Wien 2010, Abb. S. 207
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