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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
  • 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.