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Prince Leo Presents Rogero to Charlemagne "Behold," Leo said, "The champion who maintained from dawn to setting sun the arduous contest; he comes to claim the guerdon of the fight"

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

Prince Leo Presents Rogero to Charlemagne
"Behold," Leo said, "The champion who maintained from dawn to setting sun the arduous contest; he comes to claim the guerdon of the fight"

Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
Cawley Family
Accession number: SUPP2000.490
Research Number: NCW: 490
InscribedUpper left: N C WYETH (underlined)
ProvenanceThe artist; (?); Private collection, Islesboro, ME; descended in family; (?); (Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, 1998); Cawley Family; (Christie's, NY, NY, Dec. 4, 2008, lot no. 125; did not sell)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 200; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.985, p. 490
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unillustrated earlier edition of this book that the artist read and annotated in preparation for the commission (NCWS.95.183).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/1999