Joseph-Benoîit Suvée
The Predication of Saint Paulcirca 1779

Not on view

Oil painting, multi-figure narrative scene on stone steps, robed man seen from behind extending his arm toward a gathered crowd before classical architecture

Artist or Maker: Joseph-Benoîit Suvée
Belgium, Bruges, 1743-1807, active Italy, Rome
Title: The Predication of Saint Paul
Place Made: Belgium
Date Made: circa 1779
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 19 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (50.17 × 38.74 cm) Frame: 25 × 20 × 2 1/2 in. (63.5 × 50.8 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.24
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Probably in the collection of the painter Adolphe Roëhn (1780–1867). (Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2 Mar. 1868, lot 77). [Galerie Joseph Hahn, Paris]. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1973, 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.
Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
Bellier De La Chavignerie, E. and Auvray, L., Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française. 5 vols. Paris: Renouard, 1882-1887.
Du Pont de Nemours, P.S., "Lettres sur les Salons de 1773, 1777 et 1779 adressées par Du Pont de Nemours à la Margravine Caroline-Louise de Bade." Archives de l'Art Français, nouvelle périod, vol.2 (1908)
Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Sanchez, Pierre. Dictionnaire des artistes exposant dans les Salons des XVII et XVIIIeme siècles à Paris et en Province, 1673-1800. 3 vols. Dijon: L’Echelle de Jacob, 2005
Join-Lambert, Sophie and Anne Leclair. Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743-1807: Un Artiste Entre Bruges, Rome et Paris. Paris: Arthena, 2017.
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.

Joseph-Benoîit Suvée
The Predication of Saint Paulcirca 1779

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Joseph-Benoîit Suvée
Belgium, Bruges, 1743-1807, active Italy, Rome
Title: The Predication of Saint Paul
Place Made: Belgium
Date Made: circa 1779
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 19 3/4 × 15 1/4 in. (50.17 × 38.74 cm) Frame: 25 × 20 × 2 1/2 in. (63.5 × 50.8 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.24
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Probably in the collection of the painter Adolphe Roëhn (1780–1867). (Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2 Mar. 1868, lot 77). [Galerie Joseph Hahn, Paris]. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1973, 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.
Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
Bellier De La Chavignerie, E. and Auvray, L., Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française. 5 vols. Paris: Renouard, 1882-1887.
Du Pont de Nemours, P.S., "Lettres sur les Salons de 1773, 1777 et 1779 adressées par Du Pont de Nemours à la Margravine Caroline-Louise de Bade." Archives de l'Art Français, nouvelle périod, vol.2 (1908)
Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Sanchez, Pierre. Dictionnaire des artistes exposant dans les Salons des XVII et XVIIIeme siècles à Paris et en Province, 1673-1800. 3 vols. Dijon: L’Echelle de Jacob, 2005
Join-Lambert, Sophie and Anne Leclair. Joseph-Benoît Suvée, 1743-1807: Un Artiste Entre Bruges, Rome et Paris. Paris: Arthena, 2017.
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.