Saint John the Evangelist, 1793

  • François André Vincent, French, 1746-1816

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 29 × 24 1/2 inches (73.7 × 62.2 cm)
  • 39 7/8 × 35 5/8 × 3 7/8 inches (101.3 × 90.5 × 9.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund

80.6

Signed, upside down, under St. John's left hand on parchment: Vincent | 9 1793

1979-1980, (Galerie de Beyser, Paris, France)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Annual Report 1979/80," Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4. 1980, pp. 193-194, 227, (fig. 31). Athanassoglou-Kallmyer. "Horace Vernet's Academic Study of an Adolescent Boy and the Artist's Student Years," Record of the Art Museum Princeton University, vol. 45, no. 2. 1986, pp. 17-24, p. 23, (fig. 13). Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester-New Brunswick, NJ, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University-Atlanta, High Museum of Art. "La Grande Manière: Historical and Religious Painting in France 1700-1800," 1987-88, p. 170, cat. 59, repr. (cat. by D. A. Rosenthal).

François André Vincent, Saint John the Evangelist, 1793, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 80.6.