Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
The Sacrifice of Isaac1860

Not on view

Oil painting of an elderly bearded man holding a knife over a kneeling nude youth on a stone altar, with a winged angel descending from the upper right

Artist or Maker: Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
France, Lyon, 1809-1864
Title: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1860
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (46.99 × 59.69 cm) Frame: 31 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (78.74 × 74.93 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.40
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: The artist (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15–17 May 1865, lot 11, sold for 1,600 frs. to); Charles-Hippolyte Paravey (1787–1871), Paris (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 13 Apr. 1878, lot 25, sold for 1,000 frs. to); Mme Raynaud, née Emile Paravey, Paris.1 Anonymous (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4 Dec. 1973, lot 116). 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.
Horaist, B. “Hippolyte Flandrin à Saint-Germain-des Prés.” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, Paris, 1979 [published 1981]
Lanvin, C. Hippolyte Flandrin. 3 vols. Master’s thesis, École du Louvre, Paris, 1967
The Changing Image: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Peoria, IL, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1980. catalogue by J. Patrice Marandel (published in Lakeview Museum Bulletin 2, no. 2 [1980])
Hippolyte, Auguste et Paul Flandrin : une fraternité picturale au XIXe siècle. Paris, France : Ministère de la culture, 1984.
Wintermute, Alan. ed., 1789: French art during the Revolution. New York : Colnaghi, 1989.
Reymert, Martin L.H. ed.; Robert J.F. Kashey ed..Christian imagery in French nineteenth century art, 1789-1906. New York : The Gallery, 1980
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.
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France). 1865. Exposition des oeuvres d'Hippolyte Flandrin à l'École Impériale des Beaux-Arts.
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.

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
The Sacrifice of Isaac1860

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
France, Lyon, 1809-1864
Title: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1860
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 18 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (46.99 × 59.69 cm) Frame: 31 × 29 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (78.74 × 74.93 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.40
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: The artist (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15–17 May 1865, lot 11, sold for 1,600 frs. to); Charles-Hippolyte Paravey (1787–1871), Paris (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 13 Apr. 1878, lot 25, sold for 1,000 frs. to); Mme Raynaud, née Emile Paravey, Paris.1 Anonymous (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4 Dec. 1973, lot 116). 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.
Horaist, B. “Hippolyte Flandrin à Saint-Germain-des Prés.” Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, Paris, 1979 [published 1981]
Lanvin, C. Hippolyte Flandrin. 3 vols. Master’s thesis, École du Louvre, Paris, 1967
The Changing Image: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Peoria, IL, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1980. catalogue by J. Patrice Marandel (published in Lakeview Museum Bulletin 2, no. 2 [1980])
Hippolyte, Auguste et Paul Flandrin : une fraternité picturale au XIXe siècle. Paris, France : Ministère de la culture, 1984.
Wintermute, Alan. ed., 1789: French art during the Revolution. New York : Colnaghi, 1989.
Reymert, Martin L.H. ed.; Robert J.F. Kashey ed..Christian imagery in French nineteenth century art, 1789-1906. New York : The Gallery, 1980
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.
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France). 1865. Exposition des oeuvres d'Hippolyte Flandrin à l'École Impériale des Beaux-Arts.
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.