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The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, II · 1792
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Thomas Macklin (died 1800), London for the Macklin Bible. International Galleries, Chicago, 1963-64; sold to Jackie Proler, Houston, Texas, 1964 [letter of November 17 , 1994 from R. Stanley Johnson]; sold Christie's, New York, May 31, 1989, lot 118 to Richard L. Feigen [with Jan Cohen as agent, according to letter of October 26, 1994 from Cohen]; sold to the Art Institute, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Poets' Gallery, Fleet Street, Sixth Exhibition of Pictures, Painted for T. Macklin, by the Artists of Britain; Illustrative of the British Poets, and the Bible, 1793, cat. 71.
- Houston, Congregation Emmanu-El, Festival of the Bible in the Arts, January 25 - February 29, 1964, cat. 10.
Literature
Published references
- T.S.R. Boase, "Macklin and Bowyer," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 26 (1963), p. 167.
- Rüdiger Joppien, "Mythology, Religion, History," in Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, R.A., 1740-1812, exh. cat. Greater London Council, Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest, 1973, n. pag.
- Morton D. Paley, The Apocalyptic Sublime (New Haven and London, 1986), p. 55.
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1990-91 (Chicago, 1991), pp. 19, 46 (ill.).
- Gloria Groom, "Art, Illustration, and Enterprise in Late Eighteenth-Century English Art: A Painting by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg," Museum Studies 18, no.2 (1992), pp. 124-135, 184-187, fig. 1.
- Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Princeton, NJ, 1996), pp. 254-257 (ill.).
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