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Joseph Parrocel
Scenes from Ancient Historycirca 1690-1695

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Horizontal oil painting of a battle scene with figures on a chariot and horseback, loosely rendered in muted browns and grays against a pale open sky

Joseph Parrocel, Scenes from Ancient History, circa 1690-1695, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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
Frame: 11 1/4 × 16 3/4 × 1 in. (28.58 × 42.55 × 2.54 cm) Canvas: 6 × 11 5/8 in. (15.24 × 29.53 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.5
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.