Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker FundCC0 (public domain) · 2,886 × 2,250 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF

1790 · Art Institute of Chicago

Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia

Jean-Baptiste WicarWikidata

painting by Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar in the Art Institute of Chicago

Wander from here

In the picture

Date
1790Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1790–93
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
111.1 × 142.6 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Gallery
Gallery 218Art Institute of Chicago
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1963.258Wikidata
Credit line
Wirt D. Walker FundArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1963 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
    high confidenceWikidata · collection

Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif, 1964, cat. 117, as François Xavier Fabre. The Denver Art Museum, Great Stories in Art, February 13–March 27, 1966, no cat.Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Empire Profile, 1968, no cat., as François Xavier Fabre. Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Taste of Napoleon, 1969, cat. 24 (in The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin, 4, 10 [1969]), as François Xavier Fabre. The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. 25, as anonymous. New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art in Early XIX Century France, 1982, p. 99, as French School. The Art Institute of Chicago, Canova and France, 1985, no cat.The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900,1986, cat. 26.
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