Pierre Subleyras
Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child1730-1740

Not on view

Oil painting, vertical narrative composition showing winged figures and two women on clouds looking upward at a glowing nude infant floating above them

Artist or Maker: Pierre Subleyras
France, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, 1699-1749, active Italy, Rome
Title: Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1730-1740
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (29.85 × 22.54 cm) Frame: 15 × 13 × 1 1/4 in. (38.1 × 33.02 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.9
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Constantino Bartolomei(?) (d. 1767); Jacques-Claude de Bèze de Lys (1713–1775) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 3 Apr. 1775, lot 95). Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717–1776) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 8 Apr. 1777, lot 705, to); M. Lauglier.(1) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun and Nicolas Lerouge (sale, Paris, 19 Jan. 1778, lot 97, to); François-Pascal Haudry (1718–1800) (sale, Orléans, 4? Aug. 1800, no. 24). Anthony M. Clark (1923–1976) (sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1978, lot 58); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Footnote
(1)This name is written in the annotated sale catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, call no. 408624.
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.

Pierre Subleyras
Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child1730-1740

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Pierre Subleyras
France, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, 1699-1749, active Italy, Rome
Title: Seven Angels Adoring the Christ Child
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1730-1740
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (29.85 × 22.54 cm) Frame: 15 × 13 × 1 1/4 in. (38.1 × 33.02 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.9
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Constantino Bartolomei(?) (d. 1767); Jacques-Claude de Bèze de Lys (1713–1775) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 3 Apr. 1775, lot 95). Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717–1776) (sale, Paris, Rémy, 8 Apr. 1777, lot 705, to); M. Lauglier.(1) Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun and Nicolas Lerouge (sale, Paris, 19 Jan. 1778, lot 97, to); François-Pascal Haudry (1718–1800) (sale, Orléans, 4? Aug. 1800, no. 24). Anthony M. Clark (1923–1976) (sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1978, lot 58); Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Footnote
(1)This name is written in the annotated sale catalogue at the Getty Research Institute, call no. 408624.
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.