Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...
...Hermitage. Badly cracked in being transferred from wood to canvas, the picture is in none too good condition, has been elaborately repainted, but because of its price and because there are only ten genuine Raphaels in the U. S., it would probably always be the show piece of the Mellon museum...
...Self Portrait is one of that Dutchman's few works whose authenticity has never been questioned. In his varying fortunes he used to paint himself either when he was too poor to hire a model or when he wanted to display his sudden riches on canvas. Mr. Mellon's Rembrandt shows the artist when he was not rolling in wealth...
Titian's Toilet of Venus came from the Hermitage Museum, too, and cost Mr. Mellon $544,320. Painted about 1565, showing a half-nude, buxom Venetian blonde gazing into a mirror supported by cupids, it is supposed to be a portrait of Artist Titian's daughter Lavinia...
...Year's present for Henry VIII. Hanging in Windsor Castle for years, it is believed that either George I or George II took it to Hanover. There it passed to the Duke of Cumberland-Brunswick and eventually to Knoedler & Co. who sold it to Mr. Mellon...