File:Bernardo Bellotto - Festung Königstein (National Gallery of Art).jpg

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Bernardo Bellotto: The Fortress of Königstein  wikidata:Q19681644 reasonator:Q19681644
Artist
Bernardo Bellotto  (1722–1780)  wikidata:Q164688
 
Bernardo Bellotto
Description Italian landscape painter, printmaker and etcher
Date of birth/death 20 May 1722 Edit this at Wikidata 17 November 1780 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Edit this at Wikidata Warsaw Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Rome (1742–1744), Dresden (1747–1758), Vienna (1758–1761), Dresden (1761–1764), Warsaw (1764–1780)
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artist QS:P170,Q164688
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Title
The Fortress of Königstein Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lde,"Festung Königstein"
label QS:Len,"The Fortress of Königstein"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1756 and 1758
date QS:P571,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1756-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1758-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 133 cm (52.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 235.7 cm (92.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+133U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+235.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
Gallery 31
Accession number
1993.8.1
Object history
  • commissioned by Friedrick Augustus III, king of Poland and elector of Saxony [1696-1763]
  • Henry Temple, 2nd viscount Palmerston [1739-1802], London
  • Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston [1784-1865], London
  • transferred to William Lygon, 1st earl Beauchamp [1747-1816], Madresfield Court, Worcestershire
    perhaps to pay a debt
  • bequeathed to Else, Countess Beauchamp [1895-1989] [4]
  • (sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1991, no. 18)
  • (Bernheimer Fine Arts Ltd., London and Munich, and Meissner Fine Art Ltd., Zurich and London)
  • 3 June 1993: purchased by NGA
Credit line Patrons' Permanent Fund
Notes Festung Königstein, in der Sächsischen Schweiz.
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Source/Photographer National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection
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