The Nightmare
- Date
- 1781
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
40 x 49 7/8 in. (101.6 x 126.7cm)
Frame: 47 5/8 x 58 x 3 1/2 in. (121.0 x 147.3 x 8.9 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Bert L. Smokler and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
- Accession No.
- 55.5.A
- Provenance
- ?England, Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, Collection Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824), presumably sold by the Boothby family between 1839-1847;
England, Troweswell, Goudhurst, Collection H. Haskett Smith, by at least 1879;
London, auction Viscount Eversley and other collections (Christie's), 9 May 1896, lot 78;
? Stafford, England, Collection Earl of Harrowby;
London, Roland, Browse and Delbanco (dealer- by November, 1947);
New York, Durlacher Bros. (dealer), from 1950-1955;
from whom purchased by the DIA in two payments (Sept. 1954 and Jan. 1955).
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, allegory
Published References
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