Posted by CatherineNY on 26/12/2011, 16:16:17, in reply to "The Winter Queen restored"
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Interesting question. I've just done a pretty intensive web search for the provenance of the painting, and can't find anything about who sold it to the MFA.
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: When I was in Boston last week visiting the
: Museum of Fine Arts, I came across gallery
: 208 where Gerrit Honthorst's magnificent
: (and huge) Allegory of Justice is currently
: being restored. The painting shows
: Elizabeth, Electress Palatine, with her
: children and dead husband.
:
: It was my understanding that this painting
: belonged to Prince Ernst August of Hannover.
: I do not know if there is more than one
: version. The painting being restored in
: Boston was sold in London several years ago
: and is on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts.
:
:
: http://www.mfa.org/collections/conservation-and-collections-care/conservation-an-action:-allegory%20of%20justice
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: Noel S. McFerran
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