The Garden of Eden
c. 1710
Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657-1747)
  • Title: The Garden of Eden
  • Date: c. 1710
  • Medium: Oil on copper
  • Dimensions: 18-1/16 x 14-3/8 in. (45.8 x 36.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
  • Accession Number: F.1968.11.15.P
  • Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation

Object Information

Chandler Rathfon Post (1881–1959), by 1948 (sale, London, 29 November 1957).
[Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago (sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 June 1968, lot 91, ill., to)];
The Norton Simon Foundation (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 April 1980, lot 20, ill., unsold);
The Norton Simon Foundation (sale, London, Christie’s, 18 December 1980, lot 216, ill.; unsold);
The Norton Simon Foundation.

[on loan]

  • Art Institute of Chicago, to

Loan to the Permanent Collection, The Brookyln Museum

  • Brooklyn Museum, 1968-08-08 to 1969-10-06

The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400-1750)

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2021-10-15 to 2022-03-07
  • Bologna, F., Francesco Solimena, 1958, p. 249
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 484 p. 303

Additional Artwork by Artist

Faith Francesco Solimena c. 1680-84

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