A second painting by Francesco Hayez for Yale

31/10/24 - Acquisition - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery - As we learned after the publication of our recent news item devoted to the large painting by Francesco Hayez acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery through the Galerie Canesso in Paris [1]. This first purchase of a painting by the eminent representative of Italian Romanticism was quickly followed by a second from Benappi Fine Art in London. Following Doge Marin Faliero Accusing Michele Steno of Insulting the Honor of the Dogaressa, a later Self-portrait in the guise of a Renaissance condottiere with the same historicist influence entered the American museum’s European collections. These are major acquisitions for Yale, which until now had only one drawing by Francesco Hayez from the recent generous donation by New…