NGA Acquires other half of Dosso Dossi Painting
May 25 2021
Picture: Christie's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC have announced their acquisition of a Landscape by Dosso Dossi (also known as The Trojans Building the Temple to Venus at Eryx and Making Offerings at Anchises’s Grave) from the recent Christie's Old Master Paintings Sale in New York. Indeed, the gallery already owned the other half of the painting Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast. This sixteenth century masterpiece was originally part of the decorations made for Duke Alfonso d’Este’s study in Ferrara. It is believed that work had been separated into two during the later nineteenth century.
Fortunately, Christie's spliced the two images together for their catalogue note, which makes for very interesting reading:
