Two Standing Figures (Study for the Left Section of The Mission of the Apostles)

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin1860

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Title: Two Standing Figures (Study for the Left Section of The Mission of the Apostles)
Creator: Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809-1864)
Date Created: 1860
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 30.2 x 23.6 cm (11 7/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Provenance: Estate of the artist (Lugt 933, lower right, in black ink); [probably artist's studio sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (15-17 May 1865), part of no. 113 (this lot went to Haroa for 650 francs)]. [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1977., a. According to an inscription in an album of drawings by Michel-Martin Drolling, Haro was a "Restaurateur de tableaux, Neveu et Eléve de M. Rey" whose shop, "Au génie des arts," was at 30 rue du Colombier; see De Corot aux impressionnistes, donations Moreau-Nelaton, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991), no. 301.
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.365
Medium: graphite, squared in graphite
Inscriptions: upper left, in graphite: 4; lower left, in graphite: 5 / 4 / 3 / 1 1 2
Department: Drawings
Culture: France, 19th century
Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Collection: Drawings
Accession Number: 2008.365

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