Sketch for a ceiling painting.
Jacob de Wit
Flora and Zephyr
174353 x 63.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower left: J.d.Wit / .1743
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 220
Provenance
?the artist, Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam 1743–died 1754
his estate sale, Amsterdam, 10 March 1755, nr. ?, as an unknown ceiling sketch
with Georges Hoentschel, Paris, until 1906, sold to Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1906
Other works by Jacob de Wit
Sketch for a ceiling painting with the apotheosis of Aeneas
c. 1723
c. 1723
Jupiter and Callisto
1727
1727
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
1747
1747
Allegory of the Arts (Sketch for a Ceiling Painting)
1742
1742
Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord
1738
1738