BORDONE, PARIS (PARIS PASCALINUS)
APPARITION OF THE SIBYL TO EMPEROR AUGUST
The work had not yet been attributed to Bordone while in the Mazarin collection; later when it was in the Walpole and then the Hermitage collection it was attributed to Giulio Romano.
Provenance: in the collection of Cardinal Mazarin (Paris) in the mid-17th century; brought to England at the end of the 17th century by the First Duke of Marlborough and then passed to his brother, General Charles Churchill, who presented it to Sir Robert Walpole; it was in the latter's estate at Houghton Hall in Norfolk untili 1789, when it was acquired for the Hermitage from Lord Walpole's collection (in St. Petersburg it was held in the Tauride Palace), from which it was absent between 1859 and 1915; since the 1950s it has been in the collection of S.V.Obraztsov (Moscow); acquired for the Pushkin Museum in 1983
