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Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729), Allegory of Fortune, ca. 1730
- Title:
Allegory of Fortune
- Date:
- ca. 1730
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower left: “Owner Mellon, Mr. Paul | Artist Nebot, Balthasar | Title An Allegory of Fortune | National Gallery of Art PM 6671”; lower center: “Leger Galleries | Art [...] | 13 Old Bond Street [...] | Established 1892 | Title Allegory of Fortune. | Date February, 1969. | Old and Modern Masters | Early English Watercolours”; upper left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | [handwritten] Mellon | 89 | [typed] <081>”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.60
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.60FR
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | anger | blindness | bridge | chains | coins | crowd | demons | fighting | gathering | greed | leisure | men | misfortune | monarchs | nude | orb | palettes | poor | reaching | red | religious and mythological subject | sacks | sash | stocks (torture device) | throwing | wealth | woman | yoke
- Associated People:
- Fortune
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:294
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 170-171, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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