id:			143769
accession number:	1968.207
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.207
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The Continence of Scipio, c. 1710. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675–1741). Oil on canvas; framed: 155.5 x 132 x 12 cm (61 1/4 x 51 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 127 x 105 cm (50 x 41 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1968.207

title:				The Continence of Scipio
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creation date:			c. 1710
creation date earliest:		1705
creation date latest:		1715
current location:		217 Italian Baroque
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (Italian, 1675–1741)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 155.5 x 132 x 12 cm (61 1/4 x 51 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 127 x 105 cm (50 x 41 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art, January 29 through March 9, 1969: "Year in Review for 1968", catalogue, Bulletin CMA, LVI (January 1969), p. 46, no. 68, repr. p. 17.', 'opening_date': '1969-01-29T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1968-
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	(Ernest Joresco, Chicago, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1
	date: Probably 1965-1968
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			* <div><!--block-->1 There is little known about Joresco's art dealing activities, although evidence of a prominent ballroom dancing career from the early 1930s-1950s is prevalent.&nbsp; In the 1970s he sold 14 works of art to the Art Institute of Chicago, and he seems to have had a working relationship with the Art Institute's Curator of Earlier Painting and Sculpture at the time, J. Patrice Marandel, as demonstrated by several pieces of correspondence.</div>
			
			
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	James G. McMillan [d. 1965], Chicago, probably consigned to Ernest Joresco 1
	date: Probably until 1965
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			* <div><!--block-->1 McMillan was a member of the Art Institute of Chicago and president of the Chicago-based Wander Company, the manufacturer of Ovaltine.&nbsp; The painting was likely consigned by McMillan's family to Ernest Joresco for sale after his death in 1965.&nbsp; The earlier provenance of the Pellegrini remains unknown and is complicated by the fact that there are multiple copies and replicas of the painting.</div>
			
			
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Antonio Morassi, “Pellegrini and Guardi,” <em>Emporium </em>CXXVIII (1958): 198-199.
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	Eugene V. Thaw, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, March 21, 1969, in CMA curatorial file.
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	Morassi, Antonio. "Pellegrini and Guardi." <em>Emporium </em>CXXVIII, no. 11 (1958): 195-212.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 204-205
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	Young, Eric. "Some Pellegrini Sketches and Their Chronology." <em>Apollo </em>LXXXII, no. 42 (August 1965): 104-111.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 386; Mentioned: p. 385-387
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	"La Chronique des Arts." <em>Supplement a La Gazette des Beaux-Arts </em>1201 (February 1969).
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	Olszewski, Edward J. “A Rediscovered Holy Family by Francesco Trevisani.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 1 (January 1977): 25–36.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 27-28, fig. 4
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152673

	Knox, George. <em>Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 229
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