Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24)
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Lacoste, Coutelier, Paris. Supplement to Catalogue des tableaux italiens, flamands, hollandais, et français des anciennes écoles, qui composent la magnifique galerie de feu M. le Chevalier Erard [...] [April 23, 1832]. August 7-14, 1832, unpaginated, lot 220.
Lacoste, Coutellier, Paris. Supplement to Catalogue des tableaux italiens, flamands, hollandais, et français des anciennes écoles, qui composent la magnifique galerie de feu M. le Chevalier Erard [...] [April 23, 1832]. August 7-14, 1832
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Delavialle, Paillet, Paris. Catalogue de tableaux capitaux des écoles flamande, hollandaise, italienne et française, provenant en partie du cabinet du Prince Sch......de Russie [...]. March 6-7, 1838, p. 22, lot 68.
Delavialle, Paillet, Paris. Catalogue de tableaux capitaux des écoles flamande, hollandaise, italienne et française, provenant en partie du cabinet du Prince Sch......de Russie [...]. March 6-7, 1838
Pillet, Féral, Paris. Tableaux anciens & modernes; Beaux panneaux décoratifs. May 24, 1873, p. 10, lot 34.
Pillet, Féral, Paris. Tableaux anciens & modernes; Beaux panneaux décoratifs. May 24, 1873
Mauclair, Camille. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de Jean-Baptiste Greuze [...] (Paris: H. Piazza, 1905), p. 18, no. 226.
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Sotheby's, New York. Important Old Master Paintings. May 28, 1999, pp. 178-79, lot 146, ill.
Sotheby's, New York. Important Old Master Paintings. May 28, 1999
Sotheby's Art at Auction (1998-1999), p. 46, ill.
Bailey, Colin B. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2000), pp. 8-9, fig. 5.
Bailey, Colin B. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2000)
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 130, ill.
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Fort, Bernadette. "The Sketch as Transgression: Greuze's 'Roman Charity'." In The Ruin and the Sketch in the Eighteenth Century. Peter Wagner, Frédéric Ogée, Robert Mankin, and Achim Hescher, eds. (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008), pp. 156-74, fig. 1.
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When the aged Cimon was forced to starve in prison before his execution, his devoted daughter Pero secretly visited her father to nourish him at her own breast. In his *Memorable Acts and Sayings of the Ancient Romans*, the ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus presented Pero's selfless devotion as the highest example of honoring one's parent. In the 1600s, major artists painted dramatic versions of the popular subject, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze and other artists revived a century later. Closely basing the setting and arrangement of figures on Peter Paul Rubens's version, Greuze probably made this oil sketch as the final stage of preparation for an unexecuted, large-scale painting. Contemporaries admired the rapid execution, vibrant colors, and lively paint handling in Greuze's oil sketches. The critic Denis Diderot lavishly praised his combination of genre and history painting and his public, moralizing purpose.
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When the aged Cimon was forced to starve in prison before his execution, his devoted daughter Pero secretly visited her father to nourish him at her own breast. In his Memorable Acts and Sayings of the Ancient Romans, the ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus presented Pero's selfless devotion as the highest example of honoring one's parent. In the 1600s, major artists painted dramatic versions of the popular subject, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze and other artists revived a century later. Closely basing the setting and arrangement of figures on Peter Paul Rubens's version, Greuze probably made this oil sketch as the final stage of preparation for an unexecuted, large-scale painting. Contemporaries admired the rapid execution, vibrant colors, and lively paint handling in Greuze's oil sketches. The critic Denis Diderot lavishly praised his combination of genre and history painting and his public, moralizing purpose.
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Verso: upper left, white rectangular label with rounded corners, printed in black: “7313 / 146”; upper center, white rectangular label, torn, printed in black: “OTHER[?]”
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)
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Provenance Acquisition for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Sébastien Erard; subsequently by inheritance to his nephew, Pierre-Orphée Erard, 1831.
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Château de la Muette, Passy, Boulogne, France
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unsold, Erard sale, Lacoste, Coutellier, Paris, August 7-14, 1832, lot 220
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Provenance Activity for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Gaspare Spontini
Provenance Acquisition for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Gaspare Spontini
Provenance Activity for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Prince Scherbatoff
Provenance Acquisition for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Prince Scherbatoff; subsequently sold, Bonnefons Delavialle, Paillet, Paris, March 6-7, 1838, lot 68.
sold, Bonnefons Delavialle, Paillet, Paris, March 6-7, 1838, lot 68.
Provenance Activity for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Unknown
Provenance Acquisition for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Unknown; subsequently sold, Pillet, Féral, Paris, May 24, 1873, lot 34.
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sold, Pillet, Féral, Paris, May 24, 1873, lot 34.
Provenance Activity for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Charles Bailly
Provenance Acquisition for Cimon and Pero: "Roman Charity" (99.PA.24) associated with Charles Bailly; subsequently sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 28, 1999, lot 146, to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 28, 1999, lot 146, to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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