Samuel Anointing Saul

Artists

Dimensions

118 x 152 cm (46 7/16 x 59 13/16 in.) framed: 134.5 x 169 x 8 cm (52 15/16 x 66 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Prince Bourbon Parma, Schwarzau, Austria. Oskar Bondy, Vienna, Austria. [Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Austria, sold]; to Paul E. and Gabriele B. Geier, Rome, Italy, 1953, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012. NOTES: 1. Provenance research continues for this object, particularly since it was once in the Oskar Bondy collection which was confiscated in Vienna in 1938. The painting does not appear in the records of the Munich Central Collection Point from which many Bondy collection objects were shipped back to Austria and later returned by the Austrian government to the family. The painting was not included in the March 3, 1949 Kende Gallery, New York sale of restituted objects offered by Bondy’s widow, Elizabeth Anna. Mrs. Bondy, who died in 1974, also sold various works privately through Blumka Gallery and other dealers. 2. For the reference to the Prince Bourbon Parma collection see “The Fantastic Visions of Monsù Desiderio,” John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, 1950.