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Joseph Parrocel
Scenes from Ancient Historycirca 1690-1695

Not on view
Small horizontal oil painting with loose brushwork, showing two groups of robed figures on a rocky outcrop, with a hazy coastal cityscape and pale blue sky in the distance
Artist or Maker
Joseph Parrocel
France, Brignoles, 1646-1704
Title
Scenes from Ancient History
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1690-1695
Medium
Oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 6 × 11 5/8 in. (15.24 × 29.53 cm) Frame: 11 1/4 × 16 3/4 × 1 in. (28.58 × 42.55 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.6
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, sold 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.