Study for "The Apotheosis of Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina, King and Queen of Naples" (for the Palazzo dei Regi Studi, Naples)

c. 1781

Current Collection

Cleveland, United States

Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 172.4 × 122.5 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-111703

This large oil painting was thought to be an early, rough sketch for the ceiling of the Salone de Biblioteca Antica in the Palazzo degli Studi in Naples. The attribution to Bardellino was based on the sketch's similarity to another sketch by the artist, sold in New York in 1972, which is more closely related to the ceiling painting. It is assumed that the Cleveland work preceded the more finished oil sketch and that both models were created in preparation for the Palazzo degli Studi's Apotheosis, completed in 1781. The Cleveland sketch was almost completely altered in the final composition. T…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1968.208

Registry history

c. 1781 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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