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Guillaume-Guillon Lethière
The Death of Virginiacirca 1800

Not on view
Oil painting of a large crowd scene in an ancient Roman setting, with a figure collapsed on stone pavement surrounded by figures in draped robes, a large bronze statue on a pedestal in the background, and a columned temple to the right
Artist or Maker
Guillaume-Guillon Lethière
West Indies, Guadeloupe, Sainte-Anne, 1762-1832
Title
The Death of Virginia
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 19 1/2 × 30 in. (49.53 × 76.2 cm) Frame: 28 × 36 × 4 1/2 in. (71.12 × 91.44 × 11.43 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.35
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, 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.
  • Bell, Esther, and Olivier Meslay, editors. Guillaume Lethière. Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute, 2024.