William Etty

Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 121

Provenance

Arthur Kay, Tregortha, Glasgow (by 1904-11)
his sale, Christie's, London, May 11-12, 1911, no. 262, to Gooden & Fox
with Gooden & Fox, London, 1911, sold to Lever
William Hesketh Lever, Baron Leverhulme, later 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1911—d. 1925)
his estate sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 17, 1926, no. 79, to Hawkins
J.T. Hawkins (from 1926)
with Martin Birnbaum, New York, by 1958-59
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Nartin Birnbaum, 1959
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 59.131

Other works by William Etty

Study for "Leda and the Swan"
c. 1840

Reclining nude

The Deluge
c. 1835-45

The Three Graces

Perseus and Andromeda
1840