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A Vestal Virgin Crowned with Flowers
(Jacques Louis David)

Measurements
32 x 25 ¾ ins. 81.3 x 65.4 cm.
Type
Oil on canvas
Provenance

Provenance: Vente Lespinasse d’’Arlet 1803; possibly Livry, jeune, 1810; disappeared until Th. Duret lent it to two exhibitions in 1909 and 1913; Wildenstein & Co; William R. Hearst, until 1941; Dorothy L. Rinek, until 1985; Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc, 1986-87; Wildenstein & Co; Private Collection, USA.

Literature

See David Exhibition catalogue, 1989-90.

Exhibited

Exhibited: Paris, 1909, Exposition retrospective de [portraits de femmes…, no 53 (mistakenly identified as Mlle Raucourt as Iphigenie).
Paris, 1913, David et ses eleves, no 29.
Rochester and Cincinnatti, 1940, David and Ingres.
New York, Stair Sainty

Where is It?
Acquired from The Matthiesen gallery by Messrs. Wildenstein
Historical Period
Neoclassicism - 1780-1820
Subject
Mythological
School
French
Catalogue
1993-Fifty Paintings 1535 - 1825.
To celebrate Ten Years of Collaboration between The Matthiesen Gallery, London, and Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York. 216 pages, 50 colour plates, numerous black and white text illustrations £20 or $32 inc. p.& p.

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Price band
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