Place made
Pustertal, Tyrol, Austria
Medium
tempera, gold on wood panel
Dimensions
76.3 x 68.0 cm
Credit line
Elder Bequest Fund 1943
Accession number
0.1245
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated
Provenance
Acquired by the Port Adelaide Institute in 1880 or 1881. [1] A story retold in AGSA Bulletin in January 1970 suggests that the work had been discovered in the false bottom of a shipping crate and given to the Institute by John Oyston; however, records from the Port Adelaide Institute also list a painting of St Martin donated by Mr Edwin Henry Derrington in 1889 - it may be that Derrington lent the work to the Institute in 1880/1 and donated some years later [2]. Purchased by AGSA from the Port Adelaide Institute in 1943. [1] Port Adelaide News, 2 March 1881, p.2, disussed as recent addition to the Port Adelaide Fine Arts Gallery. [2] Lou Klepac, Bulletin of the Art Gallery of South Australia, vol. 31, no. 3, January 1970.
Media category
Painting
Collection area
European paintings
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