About the Artwork
Marguerite Leaving Church
1838
Ary Scheffer
1795-1858
French
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Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
80.55
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left on step: Ary Scheffer 1838
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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Exh. cat., Salon. Paris, 1839, no. 1898.
Oeuvres de Ary Scheffer. Exh. cat., 26 Boulevard des Italiens. Paris, 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, vol. 9. Paris, 1976, 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. Columbia, 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. New Orleans, 1996, pp. 133-135 (fig. 94).
Sanchez. Les Catalogues des salons, vol. 3. Paris, 2000, p. 312.
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Ary Scheffer, Marguerite Leaving Church, 1838, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 80.55.
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