Tate Provenance Research Project: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Lists of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

Tate

Contact details for further enquiries about works of art in this list, can be found in the Tate Spoliation Report.

• Sections: 
• Oppé Collection
• Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

AMICONI, Giacomo 1682-1752

Mercury about to slay Argus (1730-32)

• Materials: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 65.5 x 64.5 (25 3/4 x 25 1/4)
• Acquisition: Purchased by Colnaghi's for the Tate Gallery 1971
• Reference: T01299

Provenance

private collection near Freiburg im Breisgau c.1964*
anonymous German art dealer
Galerie Münsterburg, Basle +
Sotheby's, London, sale 24 March (53)
P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd

Questions in the operative period

No information on the identity of the private collection in Freiburg

Additional Information

+ In correspondence with the Tate Gallery, May 1971, the Galerie Münsterburg stated that the picture had been in a private collection near Freiburg, but could not provide more specific information.