The Departure of Dido and Aeneas for the Hunt

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The Departure of Dido and Aeneas for the Hunt

France, 1772-1774
Paintings
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Canvas: 12 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (32.07 × 40.01 cm) Frame: 14 × 18 × 1 in. (35.56 × 45.72 × 2.54 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.22)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Bibliography

  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
  • Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes,  J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice.  French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century.  Los Angeles:  The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
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