Lot Fleeing from Sodom

1810

Benjamin West American, 1738-1820

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Lot Fleeing from Sodom

Artwork Date 1810

Artist Benjamin West

Life Dates 1738-1820

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. American

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 panel

Dimensions Unframed: 47 1/8 × 78 1/8 inches (119.7 × 198.4 cm) Framed: 54 1/2 × 85 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (138.4 × 216.9 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation 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. 70.831

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Signed Signed and dated, lower right: B. West | 1810

Provenance

1819, dealer, John Wilson, European Museum (London, England);
1819, Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bt. [later the first Lord de Tabley] (London, England).
July 7, 1827, Leicester sale, Christie's, lot 45 (London, England).
Mrs. Newton Jackson;
1906, Radley College (Oxfordshire, England).
April 6, 1970, sale, Phillip, Son and Neale, lot P90 (London, England).
Leger Galleries (London, England);
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Carey, William. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming of Leicester, Bart. London, 1819, pp. 77-80, no. 26.

Young, John. A Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. London, 1821, p. 14, no. 30.

Hazlitt, William. Complete Works 18: pp. 113-134. London, 1930-1934.

Hall, Douglas. “The Tabley House Papers.” Walpole Society 38 (1962): pp. 102, 122.

Dillenberger, John. Benjamin West: The Context of his Life’s Work with Particular Attention to Paintings with Religious Subject Matter. San Antonio, 1977, p. 122, no. 82.

Farington, Joseph. The Diary of Jospeh Farington 11: p. 3894. New Haven, CT, 1978-1984.

Staley, Allen. “West’s Death on a Pale Horse.” Bulletin of the DIA 58, 3 (1980): p. 144 (ill.).

Von Erffa, Helmut and Allen Staley. Benjamin West. New Haven, CT, 1986, p.288, no. 238 (ill.).

Black, Mary, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume One: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 245-246, no. 112.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Benjamin West, Lot Fleeing from Sodom, 1810, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 70.831.