Battle Scene with Horses

Francesco Casanova (Italian, 1727–1802)

about 1770

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 52.1 × 92.7 cm (20 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Bettina Winter

Accession number2020.299

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceLéon Victor Raoul Le Clerc (b. 1796 – d. 1866), Vicomte de Juigné, Paris; by inheritance to his daughter, Victoire Marie Mathilde Le Clerc (b. 1828 – d. 1897), Vicomtesse de Damas; March 26, 1898, Juigné collection sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 7, sold to Coblentz [see note 1]. Joseph Bardac (b. 1851), Paris; December 9, 1927, Bardac estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 11, sold for fr. 160,000 to Léon Lowenstein (b. 1864 – d. 1935), Paris [see note 2]; to his son, Marcel Lowenstein, later Marcel Lomont (b. 1897 – d. 1987), Paris and New York; to his daughter, Bettina Winter, Belmont, MA; 2020, gift of Bettina Winter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2020)

NOTES:
[1] As “Escaramouche.” [2] As “Combat de Cavaliers.”