Offering to the God Pan

Paul Delaroche1855

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Title: Offering to the God Pan
Creator: Paul Delaroche (French, 1797-1856)
Date Created: 1855
Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 25.2 x 20.7 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Provenance: Goupil in 1856. Artist's sale, Paris, Drouot, 12-13 June 1857 (lot 6), Paysage peint à Ems. Année 1854, sold for ff 2,000 to Goupil. Vincent van Gogh sale, The Hague, Pulchri Studio, 2-3 April 1889 (lot 42), as dated 1851, for fl 210 to General Hopkinson. Bury Street Gallery, London, ca. 1972-73, whose director Lady Abdy claims to have bought it at sale at Christie's, London, at that time. Sold by her to Shepherd Gallery, New York. Ferrers Gallery, London (according to Ziff 1977). Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
Type: Painting
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.256
Medium: oil on fabric
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Paul DelaRoche 1855
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Culture: France, 19th century
Credit Line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
Accession Number: 1980.256

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