Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield

1757

Alexandre Roslin Swedish, 1718-1793

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Title Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield

Artwork Date 1757

Artist Alexandre Roslin

Life Dates 1718-1793

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. Swedish

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: 133 × 102 × 6 1/4 inches (3 m 37.8 cm × 259.1 cm × 15.9 cm) Framed: 118 1/4 × 86 1/2 inches (300.4 × 219.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund and Robert H. Tannahill Foundation 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. 80.36

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower left: Roslin le Suedois/1757

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Marks Property number, lower left: 355

Provenance

King Louis-Philippe (Château d'Eu, Eu, France)

by descent to Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duc d'Orleans

Duc de Nemours, (France)

ca. 1937, (A.B. Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, Stockholm, Sweden)

ca. 1957, Count Johan Lagergren (Djursholm, Sweden)

March 30, 1979, sold by (Palais d'Orsay, Paris, France) lot 20. 1979-1980, sold by (Maurice Seqoura, Inc., New York, New York, USA) 1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Salon de 1757. Exh. cat. Paris, 1757, p. 18, no. 69. [as "Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans à Cheval saluant de son chapeau en passant devant l'armée."]

Freron, Abbé. L'Année Litteraire, vol. XV. 1757, p. 344.

Mercure de France, October 1757, p. 165.

Correspondance de Grimm et Diderot, vol. II. 1777, p. 257.

Vatout, J. Notices Historiques sur les Tableaux de S.A.R. le Duc d'Orléans. Paris, 1825, vol. 2, pp. 272-277, no. 226.

de Chenevières, P. "Artistes Etrangérs en France." Revue Universelle des Arts, Paris, 1856, p. 410.

Fidiere, C. "Alexandre Roslin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1898): p. 54.

Levertin, Lafresen d. y. 1899, p. 149.

Roslin C. "Alexandre Roslin." Revue de l'Histoire de Versailles, 1913, p. 110.

Gauffin. Nord Familjebok, no. 23, 1916.

Lespinasse, R. Les Artistes Suèdois en France. Paris, 1929, p. 12.

Lundberg. Alexandre Roslin. Nord-Sud, 1913, p. 12.

Alexandre Roslin. Exh. cat., Malmö Museum. Malmö, 1937, cat. 3.

Anderberg, A.D. "Utställning av Alexander Roslin." Malmö Museum Manadsblad [Montthly Magazine], no. 1, June 1937, p. 9, cat. 3.

Lundberg. Alexandre Roslin. Malmö, 1957, vol. 1, pp. 50-53, p. 304; vol. 2, pl. 27; vol. 3, p. 24, cat. 90.

Eighteenth Century French Academic Art: Selected Works. New York, 1979, cat. 9 (ill.).

Sandstrom, B. "An equestrian portrait of the Duc d'Orleans by Alexander Roslin." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 1 (1988): pp. 47-54 (ill.).

Bjurström, Per. Roslin. Högäns, 1993, pp. 23-25, (ill.) p. 24.

Marandel, J.P. "Alexander Roslin." The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner. New York, 1996, vol. 27, p. 169.

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, appendix II, p. 240, (ill.) p. 241.

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Alexandre Roslin, Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, Saluting his Army on the Battlefield, 1757, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund and Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 80.36.