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Jean-Bernard Restout
The Departure of Dido and Aeneas for the Hunt1772-1774

Not on view
Oil painting, loosely rendered narrative scene with a dense crowd of figures in classical dress on broad stone steps before a columned building, with horses, dogs, and a bare-chested figure holding a spear at far right

Jean-Bernard Restout, The Departure of Dido and Aeneas for the Hunt, 1772-1774, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jean-Bernard Restout
France, Paris, 1732-1797
Title
The Departure of Dido and Aeneas for the Hunt
Place Made
France
Date Made
1772-1774
Medium
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 12 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (32.07 × 40.01 cm) Frame: 14 × 18 × 1 in. (35.56 × 45.72 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.22
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.