Nymphs Adorning Love with Flowers

1796

Joseph Marie Vien French, 1716-1809

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Title Nymphs Adorning Love with Flowers

Artwork Date 1796

Artist Joseph Marie Vien

Life Dates 1716-1809

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. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and black ink and brown wash on off-white laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 8 × 11 5/16 inches (20.3 × 28.7 cm) Mount: 12 9/16 × 15 7/8 inches (31.9 × 40.3 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy 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. 34.135

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, in pen and black ink, left (below niche), on mount: Vien 1796

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower center, on mount: L'Amour Paré pour son Triomphe. Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, on mount: Vein [underscored] (1716 - 1809) Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, on mount: 11 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right corner, on mount, verso: 556 [in circle] Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, on mount, verso: 556 [underscored]

Provenance

Edward Speelman (London, England)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Breazcale, Mary K. "The Art of Joseph Marie Vein." Ph.D diss., University of Chicago, 1980, p. 485.

Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand. Josephe Marie Vein, Peinture du Roi, 1716-1809. Paris, 1988, no. 163, p. 225.

Hawley, Henry. Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1964, no. 31 (ill.).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., DIA. New York, 1992, pp. 234-225, no. 112.

Le Néo-Classicisme Français. Dessins des Musées de Province. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1974, p. 122.

Rosenberg, Pierre, and Antoine Schnapper. Choix des dessins anciens. Exh. cat., Bibliothèque Municipale. Rouen, 1970, no. 48.

Scheyer, Ernst. "French Drawings of the Great Revolution and the Napoleonic Era." The Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 187-204, p. 191 (fig. 1).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Joseph Marie Vien, Nymphs Adorning Love with Flowers, 1796, pen and black ink and brown wash on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.135.