About the Artwork
Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield
1757
Alexandre Roslin
1718-1793
Swedish
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 133 × 102 × 6 1/4 inches (3 m 37.8 cm × 259.1 cm × 15.9 cm) Framed: 118 1/4 × 86 1/2 inches (300.4 × 219.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund and Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
80.36
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: Roslin le Suedois/1757
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Property number, lower left: 355
Provenance
King Louis-Philippe (Château d'Eu, Eu, France)
by descent to Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duc d'Orleans
Duc de Nemours, (France)
ca. 1937, (A.B. Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, Stockholm, Sweden)
ca. 1957, Count Johan Lagergren (Djursholm, Sweden)
March 30, 1979, sold by (Palais d'Orsay, Paris, France) lot 20. 1979-1980, sold by (Maurice Seqoura, Inc., New York, New York, USA) 1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Salon de 1757. Exh. cat. Paris, 1757, p. 18, no. 69. [as "Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans à Cheval saluant de son chapeau en passant devant l'armée."]
Freron, Abbé. L'Année Litteraire, vol. XV. 1757, p. 344.
Mercure de France, October 1757, p. 165.
Correspondance de Grimm et Diderot, vol. II. 1777, p. 257.
Vatout, J. Notices Historiques sur les Tableaux de S.A.R. le Duc d'Orléans. Paris, 1825, vol. 2, pp. 272-277, no. 226.
de Chenevières, P. "Artistes Etrangérs en France." Revue Universelle des Arts, Paris, 1856, p. 410.
Fidiere, C. "Alexandre Roslin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1898): p. 54.
Levertin, Lafresen d. y. 1899, p. 149.
Roslin C. "Alexandre Roslin." Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles, 1913, p. 110.
Gauffin. Nord Familjebok, no. 23, 1916.
Lespinasse, R. Les Artistes Suèdois en France. Paris, 1929, p. 12.
Lundberg. Alexandre Roslin. Nord-Sud, 1913, p. 12.
Alexandre Roslin. Exh. cat., Malmö Museum. Malmö, 1937, cat. 3.
Anderberg, A.D. "Utställning av Alexander Roslin." Malmö Museum Manadsblad [Montthly Magazine], no. 1, June 1937, p. 9, cat. 3.
Lundberg. Alexandre Roslin. Malmö, 1957, vol. 1, pp. 50-53, p. 304; vol. 2, pl. 27; vol. 3, p. 24, cat. 90.
Eighteenth Century French Academic Art: Selected Works. New York, 1979, cat. 9 (ill.).
Sandstrom, B. "An equestrian portrait of the Duc d'Orleans by Alexander Roslin." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 1 (1988): pp. 47-54 (ill.).
Bjurström, Per. Roslin. Högäns, 1993, pp. 23-25, (ill.) p. 24.
Marandel, J.P. "Alexander Roslin." The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner. New York, 1996, vol. 27, p. 169.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, appendix II, p. 240, (ill.) p. 241.
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Alexandre Roslin, Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield, 1757, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund and Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 80.36.
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