About the Artwork
Berenice Reproaching Ptolemy
c. 1802
Jean-Joseph Taillasson
1745-1809
French
Unknown
Black and white chalk, pencil, and tempera on canvas
19 1/2 x 23 3/4 (49.5 x 60.3) Frame: 25 3/4 x 30 x 2 1/2 in. (65.4 x 76.2 x 6.4 cm)
Drawings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Estate of Benjamin Goldberg and European Paintings Fund
1985.2
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Markings
Signed at lower left: Taillasson
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Provenance
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, dealer-1985, from whom purchased by the DIA in 1985.
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"Annual Report 1986-European Paintings", DIA Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 2, 1985, pp.12, 39 fig. 25.
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Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Berenice Reproaching Ptolemy, c. 1802, Black and white chalk, pencil, and tempera on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Estate of Benjamin Goldberg and European Paintings Fund, 1985.2.
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