The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of François I

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The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of François I

England, circa 1781
Paintings
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 21 3/8 × 21 5/8 in. (54.29 × 54.93 cm) Frame: 26 × 26 1/4 × 2 in. (66.04 × 66.68 × 5.08 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.25)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

Provenance

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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824), Paris (estate sale, Paris, 11–25 Apr. 1825, lot 414). François Hippolyte Walferdin (1795–1880), Paris (estate sale, Paris, 12–16 Apr. 1880, lot 146, sold for 145 frs. to); Haro;(1) Henri Haro (1855–1911), Paris (estate sale, Paris, 18–20 Mar. 1912, lot 195, sold for 150 frs.). (Louis?) Mairet collection, Paris, before 1935. Private collection, Geneva. M. J. Tully, London, acquired in 1976 (sale, New York, Christie’s, 15 Jan. 1986, lot 81, sold to); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1987–88, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) The 1880 sale catalogue identifies the buyer only as "Haro." Because Henri Haro was then only twenty-five, it is possible that the buyer was actually his father, Etienne-François Haro (1827–1897), and that Henri inherited the painting from him. The senior Haro was a student of both Ingres and Delacroix and had a significant collection, which included works from Ingres’s studio. Two sales of Etienne-François’s collection took place in 1892 and 1897. Henri followed his father as a painter, expert, dealer, and restorer of paintings in Paris.





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