The Sabine Mountains

18th or 19th century

Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld French, 1758-1846

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Rome, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Sabine Mountains

Artwork Date 18th or 19th century

Artist Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld

Life Dates 1758-1846

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. ----------

Medium Oil on paper on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 14 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (36.2 × 47 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership 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. 50.88

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Provenance

ca. 1880, collection of Louis Phillipe (Paris, France).
collection of Seth Morton Vose (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
by 1910, by descent (Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Brière, G. Musée National du Louvre, Catalogue des Peintures exposées dans les Galeries, I. Paris, 1924, p. 7, no. 20 [Louvre version of similar subject].

Edwards, R. British Landscapes in Oils from George II to Queen Victoria. Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. Exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1942-43, no. 7.

The French Revolution. Exh. (?) cat., Wildenstein Galleries. New York, 1943, p. 95, no. 429.

Edwards, R. "A Picture Attributed to J.R. Cozens," Burlington Magazine, vol 83, no. 482 (1943): pp. 126, 128 [attr. to Cozens].

French Master Works. Ehx. cat., Freedom Festival. Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1964.

Lacambre, J. French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution. Exh. cat. 1974-75, p. 316 [painting not in exh. but compared with no. 4].

Gutwirth, S. "The Sabine Mountains: An Early Italian Landscape by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 3 (1977): pp. 147-152 [dated c.1789].

From Arcadia to Barbizon: A Journey in French Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Oberlin College Allen Memorial Art Museum. Memphis, Louisville, Oberlin, 1987-1988, pp. 50-51, no. 24.

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Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld, The Sabine Mountains, 18th or 19th century, oil on paper on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 50.88.