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Jacques Sablet
Helen Saved by Venus from the Wrath of Aeneas1779

Not on view
Oil painting, narrative scene with three figures: a nude figure floating in clouds upper left, a kneeling woman in white and red, and an armored warrior with plumed helmet holding a sword and shield
Artist or Maker
Jacques Sablet
Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803
Title
Helen Saved by Venus from the Wrath of Aeneas
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1779
Medium
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 9 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (24.13 × 34.29 cm) Frame: 19 × 27 × 2 in. (48.26 × 68.58 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.27
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
The artist, at least until 1781, Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Selected 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.