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Allegory of the Glory of Princes
Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre · 1770/80
Provenance
Ownership history
- M. Bourguignon de Fabregoules, Aix-en-Provence, to around 1840; given to Charles Joseph Barthélemi Giraud (died 1882), Aix-en-Provence and Paris, around 1840 [according to Lugt 1015]. Flury-Hérard, Paris, to May 1861 [Lugt 1015]; sold, Paris, 13-15 May 1861, Flury-Hérard sale. Alliance des Arts, Paris [Lugt 61]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1970, lot 41. Paul Prouté, France [according to Chicago 1976, exh. cat.]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 58, cat. 47 (ill.).
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 12 (ill.).
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 34-35, cat. 12 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D7.
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