Paolo Veronese
The Martyrdom and Last Communion of St. Lucy
c. 1582-88139.7 x 173.4 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Provenance
Santa Croce, Belluno
sent 1808/1811 to Milan
Generale Conte Teodoro Lechi (1778-1866), Brescia, Italy, by 1814 (nr. 49 in 1814 inventory)
acquired 1827 by James Irvine, London and Rome for Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, 7th bt. (1773-1828), Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland
by inheritance to his son, Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th bt. (1804-1866), Pitsligo and Fettercairn
Forbes sale, by Alexander Rainy, London, 2 June 1842, nr. 30, as The Martyrdom of St. Giustina, not sold
by inheritance to his daughter, Harriet Williamina Hepburn-Forbes Trefusis, baroness Clinton (1835-1869), Heanton Satchville, Huish, near Merton, Devon, and Fettercairn
by inheritance (either directly from his mother or through his father, 20th baron Clinton, who died 1904) to Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st baron Clinton (1863-1957), Heanton Satchville and Fettercairn
by inheritance to his daughter, Fenella Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1889-1966, Mrs. John Herbert Bowes-Lyon), Fettercairn
gift to her daughter, Diana Cinderella Bowes-Lyon (1923-1986, Mrs. Peter Somervell)
Somervell sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 25 June 1971, nr. 23
purchased by Eisenbeiss
private collection, Germany
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10 April 1981, nr. 78
with Matthiesen Fine Art, Ltd., London
sold 1984 to NGA
Other works by Paolo Veronese
Venus, Cupid and Mars
c. 1580-85
c. 1580-85
Jupiter and a Nude
1560s
1560s
Allegory of Music
1556-57
1556-57
Annunciation
1583
1583
Boy with a Greyhound
mid 1560s
mid 1560s