Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Philip Neri

18th century

Etienne Parrocel French, 1696-1776

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About the Artwork

Title Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Philip Neri

Artwork Date 18th century

Artist Etienne Parrocel

Life Dates 1696-1776

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 53 7/8 × 39 1/8 inches (136.8 × 99.4 cm) Framed: 63 1/8 × 48 3/4 × 4 1/8 inches (160.3 × 123.8 × 10.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.24

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Signed Signed, lower right on tablet: STEFHANVS PARROCEL PINXIT ANNO MCCXXX

Provenance

Collection Giuseppi Placidi (Rome, Italy);
until 1889, Collection James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scripps, James E. Catalogue of the James E. Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, pp. 37-38, no. 39 [as by Andrea Sacchi].

“The Scripps Old Masters.” The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 151 [as “Apparition of the Virgin to St. Philip Benozzi” by Andrea Sacchi].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 22, no. 35.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, p. 31, no. 35 [as A. Sacchi, "Apparition of the Virgin to St. Philip Benozzi"].

Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 39, no. 26 [as by Andrea Sacchi].

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 100, no. 671 [as Etienne Parrocel].

Robinson, Francis W. "The Apparition of the Virgin to St. Philip Neri by Etienne Parrocel." Bulletin of the DIA 24, no. 5 (1945): p. 71 (ill.).

Il Settecento a Roma. Exh cat., Palazzo delle esposizione. Rome, 1959, p. 170.

Bean, Jacob, and Lawrence Turčić. 15th-18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1986, p. 207 [cited under cat. 230].

Bollettino d’arte 65, no. 4 (January-February 1991): pp. 133-136, 140, (fig. 2).

Artemis, Annual Report, 1991-1992. London, 1992, pp. 24-25 (ill.) [in conjunction with the preparatory drawing of the Virgin & Child].

Territori e contesti d’arte, vol. 1 (1998): p. 73.

Cristiana Garofalo, Musée Paul-Dupuy, Rome à l'apogée de sa gloire: dessins des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Rome, 2006, pp. 203, 217.

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Etienne Parrocel, Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Philip Neri, 18th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.24.