Rosalba Carriera
Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume
1730-33570 x 430 mm
Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Provenance
?Owen McSwiny, London until d. 1754
his estate sale, Langford, London, 28 February 1755, nr. 53, as "A Head of Lord Boyne, in Crayons, 3 qrs," by Rosalba
?Nathaniel Clements, The Ranger's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin (probably until d. 1777)
his son, Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim, The Ranger's Lodge (probably 1777–82) and Killadoon, Celbridge, County Kildare (1782–d. 1804)
Earls of Leitrim, Killadoon from 1804
by descent to Henry T. W. Clements, Killadoon (by 1957–d. 1974)
his great-nephew, Charles Clements, Killadoon 1974–2002
on loan to J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2000–2001
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 January 2002, nr. 54, to Sayn-Wittgenstein for MMA
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Other works by Rosalba Carriera
Portrait of a young child
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length
The Madonna
Self-Portrait as Winter
1730/31
1730/31
Portrait of a young woman