About the Artwork
Oedipus Going into Exile from Thebes
1843
Henri Augustin Gambard
1819-1882
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 57 3/4 × 44 7/8 inches (146.7 × 114 cm) Framed: 64 3/4 × 51 3/4 × 3 3/8 inches (164.5 × 131.4 × 8.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and Benjamin W. Long Bequest
76.73
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Provenance
1975-1976, (Heim Gallery, London, England)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Concours pour les Prix de Rome. Peinture." L'Artiste 27 (1843): pp. 211-213.
Delécluze. Journal des débats, September, 28, 1843, p. 3.
Bellier-Auvray. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française. Paris, 1882, vol. 1, p. 70.
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Paris, 1966, vol. 1, p. 560.
The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, and the Hackley Art Museum. Flint, Grand Rapids, Midland, and Muskegon, 1978, pp. 46-47, cat. 16 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 1 (1977): pp. 23, 27, 81 (fig. 39).
Aubrun, M.-M. "A History Painting by Gambard." Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 2 (1979): pp. 73-81 (fig. 1).
Grunchec, P. Le grand prix de peinture, les concours de prix de Rome de 1797 à 1863. Paris, 1984, pp. 241, 408, pl. 2.
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Henri Augustin Gambard, Oedipus Going into Exile from Thebes, 1843, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and Benjamin W. Long Bequest, 76.73.
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