Cleopatra

Cleopatra, between 1767 and 1769

  • Gavin Hamilton, English, 1723-1798

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 53 × 38 3/4 inches (134.6 × 98.4 cm)
  • 61 3/4 × 47 7/8 × 2 5/8 inches (156.8 × 121.6 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund

80.44

On View

  • European: Grand Tour of Italy-Rome

Department

European Painting

Details

1980, (Heim Gallery, London, England)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 59, no. 4 (1981): p. 113 (ill.). Lloyd Williams, J. Gavin Hamilton. Scottish Masters 18, 1994, pp. 12-13, 28, pl. 9.

Gavin Hamilton, Cleopatra, between 1767 and 1769, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 80.44.

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