Joseph Marie Vien
Venus Emerging from the Seacirca 1754-1755

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Artist or Maker: Joseph Marie Vien
France, Montpellier, 1716-1809
Title: Venus Emerging from the Sea
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1754-1755
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 12 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (32.39 × 41.28 cm) Frame: 15 × 18 × 1 in. (38.1 × 45.72 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.17
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: (Artist’s sale, Paris, Paillet, 17 May 1809, lot 93). (Sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1980, lot 228, to); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1994, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: 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.
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.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Joseph Marie Vien
France, Montpellier, 1716-1809
Title: Venus Emerging from the Sea
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1754-1755
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 12 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (32.39 × 41.28 cm) Frame: 15 × 18 × 1 in. (38.1 × 45.72 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.17
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: (Artist’s sale, Paris, Paillet, 17 May 1809, lot 93). (Sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1980, lot 228, to); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1994, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: 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.
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.