Adoration of the Magi

ca. 1715

Henri Antoine de Favanne French, 1668-1752

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Title Adoration of the Magi

Artwork Date ca. 1715

Artist Henri Antoine de Favanne

Life Dates 1668-1752

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: 32 1/2 × 18 inches (82.6 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 36 3/4 × 22 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (93.3 × 56.5 × 7.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Edgar R. Thom Bequest 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. 1984.36

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Inscriptions Inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar crossbar: Catharine Mary Howard of Corby Castle | .....wood 1819. Inscribed, on verticle stretcher bar: Catharine Mary Howard of Corby Castle. Inscribed, stenciled on verticle stretcher bar: 367 FF.

Provenance

Jean Bouteroue d'Aubigny (Paris, France). possibly, March 7, 1774, Brochant sale, no. 346. possibly, December 4, 1780, Mauperin sale. Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet [1731-1814] (England)

by 1819, by descent to his daughter Catharin Mary [Mrs. Henry Howard] (Corby Castle, Cumbria, England)

until after 1930, by descent, Corby Castle collection (Cumbria, England)

1982, bequethed to John Howard (Corby Castle, Cumbria, England)

November 30, 1983, sold (Sotheby's, London, England), no. 41

(Auslander and Wittgenstein, Inc.)

1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Annual Report-Accessions," Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 2 (1985): pp. 13, 21, (fig. 12).

Marandel, J. P. "Two Compositions by Henri de Favanne for the Chapel of Chanteloup," Bulletin of the DIA 63, nos. 3/4 (1988): pp. 26-31, (fig. 1).

Rosenthal, D. A. La Grande Manière: Historical and Religious Painting in France 1700-1800. Exh. cat., Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and High Museum of Art. Rochester, New Brunswick, and Atlanta, 1987/1988, p. 94, no. 20, (ill.) p. 21.

Allain-Bernard, Geneviève. "Nouveaux Documents sur Henri de Favanne" Bulletin de Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1996): pp. 79-93, esp. p. 81 and note 38 p. 86.

Chanteloup. Un moment de grace autour du duc de Choiseul. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Tours, 2007, pp. 133, 135, cat. 49, (repr.).

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Henri Antoine de Favanne, Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1715, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edgar R. Thom Bequest Fund, 1984.36.