The Muse of Painting, between 1528 and 1588

  • Paolo Veronese, Italian, 1528-1588

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 11 × 7 1/4 inches (27.9 × 18.4 cm)
  • 15 1/4 × 11 3/8 × 1 inches (38.7 × 28.9 × 2.5 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

36.30

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Painting

Giovanni Battista Raggi [1613-1657] (Genoa, Italy)

1658-1687, Cardinal Lorenzo Raggi [1615-87] (Rome, Italy)

ca. 1780-1818, probably by descent to Giulio Raggi (Genoa, Italy) by 1846, Giacomo Filippo Raggi (Genoa, Italy)

until 1892, Robert S. Holford (Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, England)

until 1927, by descent to Sir George Lindsay Holford (Dorchester House, England)

July 15, 1927, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 127

1927, purchased by Agnew

1928, (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England)

April 11, 1928, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

1936-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of Pictures and other objects of art, selected from the collections of Mr. Robert Holford, mainly from Westonbirt in Gloucestershire. London, 1921, no. 13. [as Venetian.] Benson, R. The Holford Collection, Westonbirt. London, 1924, p. 69, cat. 62, pl. LX. [as anonymous Venetian; inspired by Paolo Veronese] Hanna Thompson Gallery. Exh. cat., Detroit, 1928, cat. 12. Heil, Walter. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 238 (ill.). Heil, Walter. "Catalogue of the works of art in the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, Detroit" (typescript). Detroit, 1931, pp. 12-13. Berenson, Bernard. Italian pictures of the Renaissance; a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of place. Oxford, 1932, p. 420. Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 361. Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 16, no. 5 (February 1937): pp. 66-72, p. 70, (ill.) (cited). Suida, Wilhelm. "Notes sur Paul Véronèse." Gazette des Beaux-Arts I (1938): pp. 169-184, p. 178. Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 139, no. 238. [as by P. Veronese.] Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the DIA. Detroit, 1954, p. 109. Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: The Venetian School, vol. 1. London, 1957, p. 130. [as early work.] Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 112. Marini, R. L'opera completa del Veronese. Milan, 1968, cat. 90. Veronese and his Studio in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Fine Art, et al. Birmingham, AL, 1972, p. 16 (ill.). Fredericksen, Burton and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 39. Pignatti, T. Veronese. Venice, 1976, vol. I, p. 130, cat. 154 and vol. II (fig. 413). Hadeln, D. von. Paolo Veronese. Florence, 1978, p. 123, cat. 57. Pignatti, T. "Spalliere paintings by Paolo Veronese." Burlington Magazine (August 1981): pp. 478-481. Pallucchini, Rodolfo. Veronese. Milan, 1984, p. 79. Pignatti, T. and F. Pedrocco. Veronese, Catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1991, p. 175 (ill.). Pignatti, T. and F. Pedrocco. Veronese. L'opera completa, 2 vols. Milan, 1995, vol. 1, p. 260, no. 163. Pushkin Museum Catalogue of Italian Paintings, vol. 1. Moscow, 2002, pp. 117-119. L'Età di Rubens: Dimore, committenti e collezionisti genovesi. Exh. cat., Palazzo Ducale. Genoa, 2004, cat no. 93, p.370, p. 270, 326 no. "58-67", (ill.) p. 371. Brilliant, Virginia, ed. Paolo Veronese. A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. Exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Sarasota, 2012, cat. no. 2, pp. 36, 69, 97, 107, 262. Mulvihill, Maureen. “Review: Veronese, His Seventeenth Century Legacy- Exhibition.” Seventeenth-Century News 72, nos. 1-2 (2014): 1-8, pp. 1, 7 (ill.) Rosand, David. Paolo Veronese. London, 2023, p. 235.

Paolo Veronese, The Muse of Painting, between 1528 and 1588, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 36.30.