Landscape of Ancient Greece

1786

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes French, 1750-1819

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Landscape of Ancient Greece

Artwork Date 1786

Artist Pierre Henri de Valenciennes

Life Dates 1750-1819

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: 39 1/2 × 59 5/8 inches (100.3 × 151.4 cm) Framed: 48 1/4 × 68 5/8 × 3 7/8 inches (122.6 × 174.3 × 9.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment 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. 75.65

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Provenance

1787, Marquis de Crillon (Paris, France);
private collection (Paris, France);
1861, Mme. la Marquise de Crillon, L'Hôtel de la Place Concorde (Paris, France);
1973, Princess du Polignac (Paris, France);
1975, (Galerie Heim-Gairac, Paris, France);
1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exh. cat., Salon. Paris, 1787, no. 173.

Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de messieurs de L'Académie Royale. Paris, 1787, p. 34, no. 173.

Observations Critiques sur les Tableaux du Salon de L'année 1787. Paris, 1787, p. 28.

Deloynes collection, vol. 15. Paris, p. 170, no. 373.

Horsin-Déon. "Les cabinets d'amateurs à Paris." L'Artiste 12 (1861): p. 246.

Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800: Exposition de 1787. Paris, 1870, pp. 37-38, no. 173.

Mesuret, R. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Exh. cat., Musée Paul-Dupuy. Toulouse, 1956, p. 30, no. VI.

Burlington Magazine 115, no. 878 (November 1973): p. cxlvi (ill.).

French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1974, pp. 635, 637 [cited under cat. 179, entry by J. Foucart, as Landscape of 1787]; p. 630 [cited by A. Brejon de Lavergnée].

Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1: Annual Report (1976): p. 12.

Mosby, D. "A Rediscovered Salon Painting by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes: Landscape of Ancienet Greece." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 3 (1977): pp. 153-157 (fig. 1).

Janson, H.W., and R. Rosenblum. Nineteenth Century Art. New York, 1984, pp. 80, 177 (fig. 50).

Galassi, P. Corot in Italy Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition. New Haven and London, 1991, pp. 42, 48 (fig. 42) [as dated 1786].

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 90-91 (ill.).

Blicher-Moritz, T. "Europæisk Landskabmaleri omkring År 1800." Ladskab / Landscape, Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Yearbook of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, new series no. 7. Copenhagen, 2005, pp. 32, 156, (fig. 8).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Landscape of Ancient Greece, 1786, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, 75.65.