Landscape of Ancient Greece, 1786

  • Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, French, 1750-1819

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 39 1/2 × 59 5/8 inches (100.3 × 151.4 cm)
  • 48 1/4 × 68 5/8 × 3 7/8 inches (122.6 × 174.3 × 9.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund

75.65

1787, Marquis de Crillon (Paris, France)

private collection (Paris, France)

1861, Mme. la Marquise de Crillon, L'Hôtel de la Place Concorde (Paris, France)

1973, Princess du Polignac (Paris, France)

1975, (Galerie Heim-Gairac, Paris, France)

1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Salon. Exh. cat. Paris, 1787, no. 173. Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de messieurs de L'Académie Royale... Paris, 1787, p. 34, no. 173. Observations Critiques sur les Tableaux du Salon de L'année 1787... Paris, 1787, p. 28. Deloynes collection, vol.15. Paris, no. 373, p. 170. Horsin-Déon. "Les cabinets d'amateurs à Paris." L'Artiste 12 (1861): p. 246. Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800: Exposition de 1787. Paris, 1870, pp. 37-38, no. 173. Mesuret, R. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. Exh. cat., Musée Paul-Dupuy. Toulouse, 1956, p. 30, no. VI. Burlington Magazine 115, no. 878 (November 1973): p. cxlvi (ill.). French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paris, Detroit, and New York, 1974, pp. 635, 637. [cited under cat. 179, entry by J. Foucart, as Landscape of 1787.] [cited p. 630, by A. Brejon de Lavergnée.] Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 55, no.1, 1976, p. 12. Mosby, D. "A Rediscovered Salon Painting by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes: Landscape of Ancienet Greece." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 3 (1977): pp 153-157 (fig. 1). Janson, H.W., and R. Rosenblum. Nineteenth Century Art. New York, 1984, pp. 80, 177 (fig. 50). Galassi, P. Corot in Italy Open-Air Painting and the Classical-Landscape Tradition. New Haven and London, 1991, pp. 42, 48 (fig. 42). [as dated 1786.] Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 90-91 (ill.). Blicher-Moritz, T. "Europæisk Landskabmaleri omkring År 1800." Ladskab / Landscape, Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Yearbook of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, new series no. 7. Copenhagen, 2005, pp. 32, 156, repro. (fig. 8).

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Landscape of Ancient Greece, 1786, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, 75.65.