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Jun 23, 2019

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

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

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

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.