The Kiss. Francesco Hayez
signed Fran Hayez Veneziano / fece 1861 d' anni 70 lower left
oil on canvas
125 by 94.5cm., 49¼ by 37¼in.
Provenance
Federico Mylius, Genoa (commissioned from the artist; the Italo-German collector Mylius,1826-1897, was descended from the famous Milanese patron of the arts, Enrico Mylius)
Purchased by the present owner from the descendants of Federico Mylius in 1973
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867
Mantua, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, La Nazione Dipinta: Storia di una famiglia tra Mazzini e Garibaldi, 2007-2008, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue
Literature
Elenco manoscritto, Quadri sorici ed allegorici, no. 189, n.d. (Hayez's handwritten inventory of his work), Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan
Catalogue d'objets d'art et de curiosité formant la galerie de Mr Mylius de Gènes, Rome, 5 November 1879, p. 20 (as Le Baiser)
Giulio Carotti, ed., Francesco Hayez, Le mie memorie, Milan, 1890, p. 281, mentioned
Sergio Coradeschi, L'opera completa di Hayez, Milan, 1971, no. 313d., listed
Fernando Mazzocca, Francesco Hayez. Catalogo Ragionato, Milan, 1994, p. 336, no. 343 (erroneously illustrated as no. 342 and catalogued with incorrect dimensions)
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