This is the list of the Hermitage paintings acquired by Andrew W. Mellon during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings in 1930–1931 and donated to the National Gallery of Art.[1]
| Year | Artist | Title | Dimensions (cm × cm) |
Purchase date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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c. 1434 – c. 1436 | Jan van Eyck | The Annunciation | 90.2 × 34.1 | Jun 1930 |
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c. 1478 – c. 1482 | Sandro Botticelli | The Adoration of the Magi | 70 x 104.2 | Jan 1931 |
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c. 1482 – c. 1485 | Pietro Perugino | The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene | 134 × 165.1 | Apr 1931 |
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c. 1506 | Raphael | Saint George and the Dragon | 28.5 × 21.5 | Mar 1931 |
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c. 1510 | Raphael | The Alba Madonna | 94.5 (diameter) | Apr 1931 |
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1555 | Titian | Venus with a Mirror | 124.5 × 105.5 | Apr 1931 |
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c. 1570 – c. 1575 | Paolo Veronese | The Finding of Moses | 58 × 44.5 | Nov 1930 |
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c. 1605 | Circle of Diego Velázquez | Pope Innocent X | 49.2 × 41.3 | Jul 1930 |
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1618 | Anthony van Dyck | Portrait of a Flemish Lady | 123 × 90 | between Jun 1930 and Apr 1931 |
|
1621 | Anthony van Dyck | Isabella Brant | 153 × 120 | Aug 1930 |
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1621 | Anthony van Dyck | Susanna Fourment and Her Daughter | 172 × 117 | Mar 1930 |
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1632 | Anthony van Dyck | Philip, Lord Wharton | 133 × 106 | Mar 1930 |
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1636/1638 | Frans Hals | Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard | 86 × 69 | Mar 1931 |
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1637 | Rembrandt | A Polish Nobleman | 96.8 × 66 | Feb 1931 |
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1646/1648 | Frans Hals | Portrait of a Young Man | 68 × 55.4 | Feb 1931 |
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1646/1648, completed 1651 | Workshop of Rembrandt (possibly Carel Fabritius) | A Girl with a Broom | 107.3 × 91.4 | Feb 1931 |
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c. 1653 | Adriaen Hanneman | Henry, Duke of Gloucester | 104.8 × 87 | Nov 1930 |
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1655 | Workshop of Rembrandt | Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife | 105.7 × 97.8 | Jan 1931 |
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1655 | Rembrandt and Workshop (probably Govert Flinck) | Man in Oriental Costume | 98.5 × 74.5 | between Jun 1930 and Apr 1931 |
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1656 | Rembrandt | A Woman Holding a Pink | 103 × 86 | Mar 1931 |
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c. 1737 | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin | The House of Cards | 82.2 × 66 | Mar 1931 |
References[edit]
- ^ "Masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum Purchased by Andrew Mellon in 1931". NGA. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
Bibliography[edit]
- Selling Russia's Treasures by Nicholas Iljine, Natalia Semenova and Amir G. Kabiri (project directors). MTA Publishing (The M. T. Abraham Foundation), Paris–Moscow, 2013.
- Prodannye Sokrovishcha Rossii (lit. The Sold Treasures of Russia) by Nicholas Iljine and Natalia Semenova (project directors). Russkiy Avantgard publishers, Moscow, 2000.