The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, between 1510 and 1514

  • Correggio, Italian, ca. 1489-1534

Paint on wood panel

  • Unframed: 53 5/8 × 48 1/2 inches (136.2 × 123.2 cm)
  • 66 × 61 1/8 × 3 3/4 inches (167.6 × 155.3 × 9.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Anna Scripps Whitcomb in memory of her father James E. Scripps

26.94

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Painting

by 1627, Gonzaga Family, Dukes of Mantua (Mantua, Italy)

1627-March 29, 1650, King Charles I of England (London, England) [as by Luini]

Remigius van Leemput [1607-1675] (London, England)

1783-1826 [or 1794-1820], possibly as a gift from Pope Pius VI to Wenzel Anton, Prince von Kaunitz [1711-1794] (Vienna, Austria)

March 13, 1820, sold by (Artraria, Vienna, Austria) lot 132

1856, Leyrer (Vienna, Austria) lot 47

until 1920, by inheritance to Andreas Ritter von Reisinger (Vienna, Austria)

ca. 1920, (Bachstitz, Vienna, Austria)

1920-1925, Camillo Castiglioni [1897-1957] (Vienna, Austria)

November 17, 1925, (sold by Fr. Muller, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction Castiglioni, lot 16

1925, purchased by (J. Duveen, New York, New York, USA)

purchased by Anna Scripps Whitcomb [1866-1953] as a gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts

1926-present, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Correggio, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, between 1510 and 1514, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Anna Scripps Whitcomb in memory of her father James E. Scripps, 26.94.