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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 12, 2019 | Christie's | London | European Art: 19th Century & Orientalist Art | 212 | $****** - ****** | Samson and Delilah | |||
Oct 24, 2007 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century European Art and Orientalist Art | 259 | $****** - ****** | Samson and Delilah |
paintings
92.7 x 65.3 cm (36.5 x 25.71 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'ALEX.CABANEL./1878' (upper left)
Vincent Astor (1891-1959), New York.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 21 April 1926, lot 412.
Acquired at the above sale by J. H. Cooper, for $300.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 October 1987, lot 75.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 October 2007, lot 259.
with S.V.U. Mánes Galerie Diamant, Prague.
Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Alexandre Cabanel, 1823-1889. La tradition du beau, 10 July-5 December 2010, no. 391; the exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, 4 February-15 May 2011.
Prague, S.V.U. Mánes Galerie Diamant, Metamorphoses, 4 April-31 May 2013.
Hluboká nad Vltavou, Ales South Bohemian Gallery, Alfons Mucha v zrcadle doby, 28 June -28 September 2014, no. 8.
Edward Strahan, ed., The Art Treasures of America being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. II, p. 78.
Lucy H. Hooper, Parisian Art-Items, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, June 1879, p.189.
Lucy H. Hooper, Contemporary French Artists: Meissonier and Cabanel, The Art Journal, New York, vol. 5, September 1879, p. 286.
Claude Vento (pseudonym of Alice Laincel), Les Peintres de la femme, Paris, 1888, p. 204.
Georges Lafenestre, Alexandre Cabanel, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3 ed., t. 1, April 1889, p. 278.
Armand (Inventoire Armand), Inventaire des dessins, photographies et gravures relatifs à l'histoire générale de l'art: Légués au département des Estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale par M. A. Armand, rédigé par M. François Courboin, Lille, 1895, no. 10360 (illustrated).
Jean Nougaret, "Alexandre Cabanel. Sa vie, son oeuvre, essai de catalogue," unpublished dissertation, Montpellier, 1962, p. 154, no. 328.
C. Blyth, Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale: The Lost Seduction, London/New York, 2017, pp. 102-105 (illustrated).
signed and dated 'ALEX.CABANEL./1878' (upper left)
oil on canvas
36 ½ x 25 ¾ in. (92.7 x 65.3 cm.)
