Venus Healing Aeneas by Merry Joseph Blondel
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Venus Healing Aeneas

Merry Joseph Blondel · c. 1820

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Hippolyte Lebas (died 1867), Paris, by 1867; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 2–4, 1867, lot 93, as Sujet mythologique, to private collection, France. Sold, small regional auction, France, artist listed as anonymous, to private collection, by 2010; sold, Artcurial auction at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 19, 2010, lot 199, as Venus protégeant le corps d’Hector de la corruption, to Caylus Anticuaios, Madrid; sold to Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Catalogue des Oeuvres de Feu Hippolyte Le Bas et Des Tableaux & Dessins Anciens & Modernes Gravures, Lithographies, Bronzes, Platres, etc., sales cat. (Hôtel Drouot, December 2–4, 1867), n.pag., lot 92.
  • Artcurial Auction at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe Siècle, sales cat. (Hôtel Drouot, February 19, 2010), p. 50, lot 199.

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