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Saint Hymer in Solitude
After Jean Restout · c. 1735
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly the church of Saint-Hymer, Calvados. Purchased at public auction by Galerie Cailleux, Paris [letter from Marianne Roland Michel dated February 25, 1983 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Rochester, University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, La Grande Maniere: Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800, May 2-July 26, 1987, no. 45 as Restout; New Brunswick, NJ, immerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, September 6-November 8, 1987; Atlanta, High Miseum of Art, Georgia-Pacific Center, December 7, 1987-January 29, 1988.
Literature
Published references
- Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, "French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago," (Chicago, 1996), pp. 124-7 (ill.).
- Christine Gouzi, "Jean Restout 1692-1768: Peintre d'histoire a Paris" (Arthena, Paris, c. 2000), pp. 233, 324-5, cat. no. P.R. 3 (ill.).
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