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The Descent into Limbo
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Purchased by William Hopetoun Carnegie 8th Earl of Northesk Rome c. 1860 by inheritance to his son; George John Carnegie 9th Earl of Northesk sold?; to R. Langton Douglas London sold; to Paul J. Sachs Cambridge 1915 gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1922.
Notes:
1. The 8th Earl of Northesk was a connoisseur who lived in the Palazzo Poli in Rome for about twenty years.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Paul J. Sachs "A testimonial to my friend Edward W. Forbes"