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Jacques Sablet
Allegory of the City of Bern ( The Temple of the LIberal Arts, with the city of Bern and the Goddess Minerva)1779

Not on view
Oil painting of a multi-figure scene set in a columned classical interior, with draped figures in crimson, gold, and white gathered around a glowing white marble statue
Artist or Maker
Jacques Sablet
Switzerland, Morges, 1749-1803
Title
Allegory of the City of Bern ( The Temple of the LIberal Arts, with the city of Bern and the Goddess Minerva)
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1779
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 13 1/4 × 21 in. (33.66 × 53.34 cm) Frame: 13 1/4 × 17 × 2 1/2 in. (33.66 × 43.18 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.28
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
The artist, at least until 1781, Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1970, 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.