About the Artwork
President Mole Manhandled by Insurgents
between 1778 and 1779
François André Vincent
1746-1816
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 62 1/8 × 50 3/8 inches (157.8 × 128 cm) Framed: 74 7/8 × 63 3/8 × 5 inches (190.2 × 161 × 12.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund and Henry Ford II Fund
78.39
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Provenance
private collection (Geneva, Switzerland)
1978, (Heim Gallery, London, England)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of French Drawings Neo-Classicism. Exh. cat., Heim Gallery. London, February 20 - March 27, 1975, cited under cat. 122 [preparatory drawing by Vincent for the version of the subject now in the Asemblée Nationale, Paris].
Mansfield, Elizabeth C. The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, p. 90, (ill.) 92 (fig. 4.8).
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François André Vincent, President Mole Manhandled by Insurgents, between 1778 and 1779, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund and Henry Ford II Fund, 78.39.
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