Dettaglio della Cena - Ritratto di Paolo Veronese (Detail from the Feast of Levi - Portrait of Paolo Veronese) – Works

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Photographer James Anderson (British, 1813 – 1877)

Photographer Domenico Anderson (British, 1854 – 1938)

Date1875-1900

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (26 × 20 cm)

Credit LineGift of James Garfinkel, Class of 1980; Transferred from the Art History Department

Object numberS2018.2.402

Not on view

DescriptionPhotograph of a detail from the Feast in the House of Levi (1573). This work, painted for the Dominican order of SS. Giovanni e Paolo to replace an earlier work by Titian destroyed in the fire of 1571, is the last of the grandiose "suppers" painted by Veronese for the refectories of Venetian monasteries (Source: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/v/veronese/06/8levi.html, accessed 6/20/2023). This detail shot depicts a figure in the painting. With his eloquent gesture the elegantly dressed Venetian accompanied by a page links the figures in the left arch with Christ as the focus of the picture, in terms of both form and content. Without being a self-portrait, the portrait-like, characteristic head with a high forehead and distinctive nose does not lack a certain resemblance to the portraits we have of Veronese himself. (Source: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/v/veronese/06/8levi3.html, accessed 6/20/2023)

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Provenance 2018: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, by transfer from the Art History Department;
likely by 1985 - 2018: Hamilton College (Art History department), by gift of James Garfinkel;
c. 1981-85: James Garfinkel, likely by purchase at auction in London.

Inscribed Recto, lower margin: "13151-Venezia Dettaglio della Cena (Ritratto di Paolo Veronese) Riproduzione interdetta- Anderson"
Verso, lower center (pencil): "Portrait of Veronese-Detail from the Feast of Levi / academy, Venice / Paolo Veronese"