Girolamo Nerli
(Italy, Australia, New Zealand 21 Feb 1860–24 Jun 1926)
- Title
- A Bacchanalian orgy
- Other titles:
- A Bacchanalian orgie
- Year
- (1887)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
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20.3 x 43.2cm board; 37.6 x 60.6 x 2.4cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, blue oil "GP [monogram]. Nerli". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1969
- Accession number
- OA21.1969
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Bibliography (6)
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Michael Dunn (Australia, b.1942) (Author), Nerli: an Italian painter in the South Pacific, Auckland, 2005, 19-20. A related work in the collection of the NGA is reproduced in colour on page 61, plate no. 3.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art, Domain, Sep 1989, 5, 63.
Peter Entwisle (Author), Michael Dunn (Australia, b.1942) (Author), Roger Collins (Author), Nerli - An exhibition of paintings & drawings, Dunedin, 1988, 14, 32, 104, (illus.), 105, 106. cat.no. 21
Girolamo Pieri Nerli (1863-1926) 1976, 1976, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 34.
Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 78 (colour illus.).
'Acquisitions for 1969', pg. 538., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Jul 1970, Jul 1970, 538, 539 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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Stampede of the Lower Gods: Classical Mythology in Australian Art 1890's-1930's, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Oct 1989–26 Nov 1989.
Italian artists working in 19th century Australia (1993), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 24 Sep 1993–21 Nov 1993.
