Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Autumn, 1572. Oil paint on canvas; 36 × 27 5/8 in. (91.4 × 70.2 cm). Denver Art Museum: Gift of John Hardy Jones, 2009.729

image height: 36 in, 91.4400 cm; image width: 27 5/8 in, 70.1675 cm; frame height: 48 3/4 in, 123.8250 cm; frame width: 40 1/4 in, 102.2350 cm; frame depth: 3 1/2 in, 8.8900 cm

European and American Art Before 1900

European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

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Collection of Auguste-Louis-César-Hippolyte-Théodore de Lespinasse de Langeac, comte d'Arlet [1759–1814], Paris, by 1814; sale, (Guillaume Jean Constantin [1755–1816]) and (Bon-Thomas Henry [1766-1836]), Paris, January 4, 1815, no. 214. Bridel-Boiceau collection, probably acquired in Marseille, France [1]; by descent, Maurice Bridel [1921-2005], Lausanne, Switzerland, probably by 1948; purchase, (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, stock book no. A7540, March 30, 1960; purchase, (M. Knoedler & Co.), Paris, July 1, 1969. Private collection, Paris, by 1977; John Hardy Jones, California, by 1999 [2] [3]; sale, (Sotheby’s), New York, May 23, 2001, no. 105 (unsold); gift, Denver Art Museum, 2009. [1] Multiple publications and DAM object file notes indicate the work was acquired by Bridel’s heirs in Marseille shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, but no definitive documentation has been found. [2] Direct transfer and ownership date based on DAM object file notes. [3] On long term loan to the Denver Art Museum, December 1999- April 2001.