slaves [ 48 ] Circle of Bartolomeo Passarotti (Italian, 1529–92) Portrait of Domenico Giuliani and His Servant, 1579 Oil on canvas; 121 × 92.2 cm Manchester City Galleries, Manchester, England (1959.114) provenance Col. T. H. Leathart; his sale, Sotheby’s, 15 July 1931, lot 107, repr. as Pordenone; Francis Stonor; purchased from Colnaghi’s July 1959
[ 49 ] annibale carracci, attrib. (Italian, 1560–1609) Portrait of an African Slave Woman, ca. 1580s
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Oil on canvas; 60 × 39 × 2 cm (fragment of a larger portrait) Tomasso Brothers, Leeds, England provenance Carlo Maratti (1625–1713), mentioned in his inventory of assets ritratto d’una mora che tiene un orologio (portrait of a black woman holding a clock); Philip V of Spain, upon his death in 1745, mentioned in the Queen’s antechamber; Given by the Quartermaster General for the province of Segovia, Ramón Luis de Escobedo to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, just prior to August 1812; Private Collection, England, until 2005.
[ 50 ] Italian (Venice), probably Cameo with Bust of an African Boy, late 16th century Sardonyx, gold; overall: 1.6 × 1.1 cm, visible cameo: 1.6 × 1.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Milton Weil Collection, 1938 (38.150.27) provenance The Milton Weil Collection, 1938
[ 51 ] Italian Cameo of Laureate Black Man (obverse) Cameo of a Roman Emperor (reverse), mid-16th century Sardonyx, gold; overall: 5.2 × 3.9 cm, visible cameo: 4.9 × 3.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Milton Weil Collection, 1938 (38.150.12) provenance The Milton Weil Collection, 1938
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