The Raising of Lazarus

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The Raising of Lazarus

France, circa 1711
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 39 1/8 × 63 1/2 in. (99.4 × 161.29 cm) Frame: 47 1/2 × 72 × 2 1/2 in. (120.65 × 182.88 × 6.35 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.4)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Possibly [Alexander Stuart?](1) (sale, London, Christies, 25–26 Feb. 1788, lot 97, "Jouvenet, The Raising of Lazarus," sold for £4.4 to); Parsons.

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Possibly [Alexander Stuart?](1) (sale, London, Christies, 25–26 Feb. 1788, lot 97, "Jouvenet, The Raising of Lazarus," sold for £4.4 to); Parsons. Possibly anonymous (sale, Paris, Clisorius, 21 Nov. 1808, lot 84, as "Jouvenet, Un tableau, esquisse avancée, Lazare faisant enterer les morts"). Probably Thomas Theodoor Cremer (1742–1815), Rotterdam (sale, Rotterdam, Leen, 16 Apr. 1816, lot 48: "J. Jouvenet, De opwekking van Lazarus. Eene uitvoerige schets van het stuk, ’t welk zich in de kerk van St. Martin te Parijs bevind. Bekend uit de prent gegraveerd door Audran. Doek, Hoog 36, Breed 60 duimen");(2) Herriston. Possibly Van Meldert (sale, Mechelen, Belgium, Elst, 17 May 1837, lot 140, "Jean Jouvenet, Très belle esquisse représentent la résurrection de Lazarre," sold for 5 frs. to); Van Bredael. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1994, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Footnotes

(1) According to the notes of the sale cited in the Getty Provenance Index, Sales Contents Database, the name of the seller of the painting in Christie’s original copy is illegible. The sale was called "Alexander Stuart."

(2) "The Raising of Lazarus. A detailed sketch of the piece found in the church of Saint Martin in Paris. Known by the print engraved by Audran. Canvas, 36 × 60 thumbs, sold for fl. 80." Jean Audran’s print was published in Landon 1803–20, vol. 9 (1809), pl. 1.


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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Schnapper, Antoine. Jean Jouvenet, 1644-1717: et la peinture d’histoire à Paris. Paris: Arthena, 2010.
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