{"id":16243,"date":"2019-12-03T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/become-a-sponsor-chateau-de-fontainebleau\/completed-projects\/allegory-of-water-masterpiece-by-albano\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:01:07","slug":"allegory-of-water-masterpiece-by-albano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/en\/become-a-patron-chateau-de-fontainebleau\/completed-projects\/allegory-of-water-masterpiece-by-albano\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegory of Water, a masterpiece by Albano"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"16243\" class=\"elementor elementor-16243 elementor-4286\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5373d059 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5373d059\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a225ac2\" data-id=\"a225ac2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63d0966f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"63d0966f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fontainebleau.rec.faire-savoir.com-09-532327-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-elementor-768-ratio size-elementor-768-ratio wp-image-4289\" alt=\"Allegory of Water by Albano at the Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fontainebleau.rec.faire-savoir.com-09-532327-1.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fontainebleau.rec.faire-savoir.com-09-532327-1-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fontainebleau.rec.faire-savoir.com-09-532327-1-69x60.jpg 69w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71a9e3ab\" data-id=\"71a9e3ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dd9d9e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5dd9d9e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>These two works of exceptional quality were painted by Albano for Jacques Le Veneur, Count of Carrouges, a French art connoisseur who was a close friend of the artist and godfather to his second son in Bologna, in 1625. At the death of Jacques Le Veneur in 1653, the three paintings by Albano appeared in the gallery of the Ch\u00e2teau de Carrouges (Orne), which he had acquired in 1634: in addition to the two works currently held in Fontainebleau, there was Neptune and Amphitrite, or Allegory of Water. The first two, Cybele and the Seasons and Apollo and Mercury, later entered the collection of Andr\u00e9 Le N\u00f4tre who gave them to the king with part of his collection in 1693.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ddf86b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ddf86b0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8d12c24\" data-id=\"8d12c24\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9fa3337 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"9fa3337\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76a6daf7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76a6daf7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5b7659ce\" data-id=\"5b7659ce\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a21075d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2a21075d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Remaining in the royal collections until the Revolution, they then were moved to the Louvre Museum where they were exhibited from 1816 onwards before being loaned to Fontainebleau. Neptune and Amphitrite, the third painting, had a very different fate. Inventoried with the two other paintings at Carrouges in 1653, it did not reappear until nearly a century later in the collection of Jacques-Antoine Crozat, the Marquis of Thugny, who died in 1751. It was then passed on to Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset, an equally illustrious Parisian art connoisseur, and, when it was sold after his death (1777), it was acquired by the Count of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Dutartre, who kept it until his death in 1804: it was then considered \u2018[the] richest and most graceful composition known by this amiable painter\u2019. Purchased in 1805 by the merchant Lafontaine on behalf of Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of Emperor Napoleon I, it came into the possession of King William II of the Netherlands in the 19th century and then passed through various English collections<sup><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Having remained inaccessible for a long time, Neptune and Amphitrite by Albano reappeared at Christie\u2019s in London on the 29th of October 1999. Acquired by an American collector, it was put up for sale again in 2008 and declared a \u2018work of major heritage interest\u2019 paving the way for its return to France and its inclusion in the national collections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put up for sale at a price of \u20ac1,380,390, the Ch\u00e2teau was able to acquire this exceptional painting thanks to the generosity of corporate patrons, as well as the Heritage Fund of the French Ministry of Culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is how, after having been separated for three and a half centuries, the three paintings on copper by Albano were finally reunited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau extends its warmest thanks to the companies that contributed to its acquisition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PATRONS<\/strong><br \/>Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Brie Picardie<br \/>Redex<br \/>Oxym\u00e9tal<br \/>Aurignac Finance<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0287abd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0287abd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de98268\" data-id=\"de98268\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdeaa7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"bdeaa7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-53355f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"53355f8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-82279b7\" data-id=\"82279b7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f44278 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6f44278\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Discover the other completed projects...<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7796bf elementor--h-position-center elementor--v-position-middle elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-inside elementor-widget elementor-widget-slides\" data-id=\"a7796bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;transition&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;transition_speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"slides.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-slides-wrapper elementor-main-swiper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Diapositives\" dir=\"ltr\" data-animation=\"fadeInUp\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-wrapper elementor-slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-repeater-item-6f5153c swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-bg\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"24. 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