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Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”
François Le Moyne · 1717
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jules Alexandre Duval Le Camus (1814–1878), Paris [stamp (L.1441) recto, lower right, in black]. Christian and Isabelle Adrien, Paris, from 1970; sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar. 22, 2018, lot 43, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Arte de las Academias Francia y México, siglos XVII–XIX, 1999–2000, pp. 120–21.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Une collection particulière: les dessins de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2012, cat. 54, p. 151.
- Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, Dessiner à l’Académie royale: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2013.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 62-63, cat. 24, p. 137, GC 60, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Literature
Published references
- Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation (1688–1737) (Arthena, 1984), p. 143, under no. 9, fig. 136.
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