Jean Louis Gabriel, Rector of Saint Merri

1861

Henri Lehmann French, 1814-1882

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Title Jean Louis Gabriel, Rector of Saint Merri

Artwork Date 1861

Artist Henri Lehmann

Life Dates 1814-1882

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. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 51 1/2 × 38 5/8 inches (130.8 × 98.1 cm) Framed: 61 1/8 × 48 1/4 × 4 inches (155.3 × 122.6 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund

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. 79.35

Markings

Signed Signed and dated at upper right: H.LEHMANN.F | A.D. MDCCCLXI [See vertical artist's file in Registrar's Office for reproduction of signature.]

Inscriptions Inscribed, name and age (65) of sitter, upper left: J.L. GABRIEL | A.AE.LXV [See vertical artist's file in Registrar's office for reproduction of inscription.]

Provenance

March 1978, auctioned by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France);
Fischer-Kiener Galleries (Paris, France);
1978-1979, (Heim Gallery, London, England);
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lanzac, Henry. Galerie Historique et Critique du XIXe siècle. Paris, 1859 - 1861, vol. 2, pp. 263-68.

Paris "Salon," 1864, p. 191, no. 1172.

Lagrange, Léon. Le Salon de 1864. Paris, Didier et cie. 1864, pp. 525-526.

Laurent, T. and Ch. "M. Henri Lehmann," Annales Historiques et Biographiques 1864 sub voce, 1864.

Frond, V. Panthéon des Illustrations françaises au XIXe Siècle. Paris, 1865-69, folio AA 103, no. 64.

Delaborde, Henri. "Peintures murales executées dans la salle à manger d'un hotel à Paris par Henri Lehmann," Gazette des Beaux-Arts. (April 1874): pp. 305-315.

Bellier and Auvray. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'Ecole française. Paris, 1882, vol. 1, p. 982.

Boulanger, G. A. C. Notice sur M. Lehmann. Paris, 1883, pp. 1-16.

Fournel, V. Les artistes français contemporains: Peintres, Sculpteurs, Tours. 1884, pp. 311-320.

Jouin, Henry. Maitres contemporains. Paris, 1887, pp. 157-158.

"Exhibition." Royal Academy, London. 1966, cat. 149.

Forgotten French Art from the First to the Second Empire. Exh. cat, Heim Gallery. London, November 23 - December 22, 1978, cat. 25, repr. (entry by M.-M. Aubrun--unpaginated).

"Annual Report 1979/80", Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4. (1980): pp. 194, 196, 255, (fig. 44).

Henri Lehmann 1814-1882 Portraits et Décors Parisiens. Exh. cat., Musée Carnavalet. Paris, 1983, cited under cat. 45 [entry by. M.-M. Aubrun].

Aubrun, M.-M. Henri Lehmann 1814-1882, 2 vols., Paris, 1984, vol. 1, p. 144, no. 470; vol. 2, p. 118, repr.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Henri Lehmann, Jean Louis Gabriel, Rector of Saint Merri, 1861, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 79.35.