About the Artwork
Berenice Reproaching Ptolemy
1802
Jean-Joseph Taillasson
1745-1809
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 61 1/2 × 76 5/8 inches (156.2 × 194.6 cm) Framed: 71 1/2 × 87 5/8 × 4 3/4 inches (181.6 × 222.6 × 12.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
75.87
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left: Taillasson
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Provenance
1975, La Sirène, 60 rue Blanche (Paris, France)
1975, (Jacques Fischer, Paris, France)
1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Salon. Exh. cat. Paris, 1802, no. 270.
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées. Paris, 1802, p. 55, no. 270.
Landon, C.P. Annales du Musée et de l'école des beaux-arts. Paris, 1804, vol. 6, p. 43.
"Annual Report." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1 (1976): pp. 12, 34 (fig. 24).
"Principales acquisitions des musées en 1977." La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts, no.1310 (March 1978): p. 50, no. 225 (ill.).
The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, and the Hackley Art Museum. Flint, Grand Rapids, Midland, and Muskegon, 1978, pp. 16-17, cat. 1 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 62, no. 2 (1985): p. 39 (fig. 26).
La peinture à Bordeaux 1750-1800. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux, 1989, pp. 322-323, cat. 124, pl. 23.
Les Bérénices textes et figures. Exh. cat., Musée National des Granges de Port-Royal. Paris, 1992, pp. 52, 53 (fig. 45).
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Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Berenice Reproaching Ptolemy, 1802, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 75.87.
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