About the Artwork
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
1842
Émile Signol
1804-1892
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 55 1/2 × 45 inches (141 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 67 1/2 × 57 × 4 1/2 inches (171.5 × 144.8 × 11.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund
79.6
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower right: EM. SIGNOL
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Provenance
the artist, Emile Signol (Paris, France)
1972, M. J. Morineau (Versailles, France)
1978, (Heim Gallery, London, England)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Salon. Exh. cat. Paris, 1842, no. 1717.
Exposition Universelle. Exh. cat., Paris, 1855, p. 431, no. 4002.
Forgotten French Art from the First to the Second Empire. Sales cat., Heim Gallery. New London, 1978, cat. 21 (ill.).
The Art of the July Monarchy: France 1830 to 1848. Exh. cat., Museum of Art and Archeology, Memorial Art Gallery, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Columbia, Rochester, and Santa Barbara, 1989, p. 295, cat. 163 (ill.).
Bergman-Carton, Janis. The Woman of Ideas in French Art, 1830-1848. New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 141-142 (fig. 73).
Sanchez, P. and X. Seydoux. Les Catalogues des Salons, vol. 4, (1841-1845). Paris, 2000, p. 120, no. 1717.
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Émile Signol, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, 1842, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 79.6.
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