Marguerite Leaving Church

1838

Ary Scheffer French, 1795-1858

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Marguerite Leaving Church

Artwork Date 1838

Artist Ary Scheffer

Life Dates 1795-1858

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: 84 5/8 × 54 1/8 inches (214.9 × 137.5 cm) Framed: 87 1/2 × 57 × 2 3/8 inches (222.3 × 144.8 × 6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

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. 80.55

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower left on step: Ary Scheffer 1838

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Marks Marks, on verso of the bottom stretcher bar: 3658 Marks, at left: Michel 96 Micromesnil.

Provenance

by 1859, until 1872, Paturle (Paris, France)

Febraury 28, 1872, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) lot 16

by 1934, Count de Montjou (Normandy, France)

1980, (Galerie Fischer-Keiner, Paris, France)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Salon. Exh. cat. Paris, 1839, no. 1898.

Oeuvres de Ary Scheffer. Exh. cat., 26 Boulevard des Italiens. Paris, May 1859, p. 16, cat. 38.

Etex, A. Ary Scheffer: étude sur sa vie et ses ouvrages. Paris, 1859, p. 25, no. 38.

Passa, T. Ary Scheffer: étude sur sa vie et ses oeuvres. Paris, 1859, pp. 13-14.

Blanc, Ch. "Ary Scheffer." Histoire des peintres de toutes écoles: école française, Paris, 1863, p. 19.

Museum Ary Scheffer, Catalogus der Kunstwerken en andere Voorwerpen, betrekking hebbende op Ary Scheffer en toebehoorende aan Dordrechts Museum. Dordrecht, 1934, p. 102.

Kolb, M. Ary Scheffer et son temps, 1795-1858. Paris, 1937, pp. 191, 341-342, 475 (ill.).

Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Paris, 1976, vol. 9, pp. 353-354.

Holt, E.G., ed. The Triumph of Art for the Public the Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics. Garden City and New York, 1979, pp. 296-297.

Ary Scheffer 1795-1858. Paris, 1980, p. 63.

Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 4 (1981): p. 143 (ill.).

The Art of the July Monarchy: France 1830 to 1848. Exh. cat., Museum of Art and Archeology, Memorial Art Gallery, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Columbia, Rochester, and Santa Barbara, 1989, pp. 95, 289, cat. 152, pl. 35, pp. 80-100, p. 95.

Romance and Chivalry; History and Literature Reflected in Early Nineteenth Century French Painting. Exh. cat., New Orleans Museum of Art, Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc. and the Taft Museum. New Orleans, New York, and Cincinnati, 1996, pp. 133-135 (fig. 94).

Sanchez. Les Catalogues des salons. Paris, 2000, vol. 3, p. 312.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Ary Scheffer, Marguerite Leaving Church, 1838, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 80.55.