Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child

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Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child

France, 1730-1740
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (29.85 × 22.54 cm) Frame: 15 × 13 × 1 1/4 in. (38.1 × 33.02 × 3.18 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.9)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Constantino Bartolomei(?) (d. 1767); Jacques-Claude de Bèze de Lys (1713–1775) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 3 Apr. 1775, lot 95).

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Constantino Bartolomei(?) (d. 1767); Jacques-Claude de Bèze de Lys (1713–1775) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 3 Apr. 1775, lot 95). Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717–1776) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 8 Apr. 1777, lot 705, to); M. Lauglier.(1) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun and Nicolas Lerouge (sale, Paris, 19 Jan. 1778, lot 97, to); François-Pascal Haudry (1718–1800) (sale, Orléans, 4? Aug. 1800, no. 24). Anthony M. Clark (1923–1976) (sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1978, lot 58); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Footnote

(1)This name is written in the annotated sale catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, call no. 408624.

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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.
  • 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.