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Lot Fleeing from Sodom

Benjamin West American, 1738-1820
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About the Artwork

Lot Fleeing from Sodom

1810

Benjamin West

1738-1820

American

Unknown

Oil on panel

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)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

70.831

Public Domain

Markings

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

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