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The Eruption of Vesuvius
The Eruption of Vesuvius
Appointment:
1771
Artist:
Pierre-Jacques Volaire French, 1729–c.1790–1800
About this artwork
Condition
On View, Gallery 219
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Artist
Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Championship
The Eruption of Vesuvius
Origin
France
Date
1771
Medium
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions
Inscribed bottom left: Vue de 50'Eruption / du mont Vesuve du 14 / may 1771 peinte Sur le / lieu par le Che Volaire.
Dimensions
46 × 95 five/eight in. (116.8 × 242.9 cm)
Credit Line
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number
1978.426
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Ingvar Berström, "Nagra Vesuvius-Bilder Fran 1700-Talet, Apropos ett Okänt Verk av Jacques Volaire," in Festskrift tillägnad Axel Boëthius, July 18, 1949 (Gothenburg, 1949), pp. 15–29, fig. 1.
Jacques Foucart in Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, exh. true cat., 1974, p. 668, under no. 203.
Benedict Nicolson, "Electric current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: General," Burlington Magazine 118 (1976), p. forty, fig. 39.
Marina Causa Picone, "Volaire," Antologia di belle arti 2, no. 5 (1978), p. 38.
Madeline Pinault in Paris, Galeries Nationales du M Palais, La Révolution française et fifty'Europe, 1789–1799, exh. true cat., 1989, p. 220, nether no. 309.
Fifty Paintings, 1535–1825: To Celebrate Ten Years of Collaboration between the Matthiesen Gallery, London, and Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York (London and New York, 1993), p. 170.
Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Fine art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 156–59 (sick.).
Peter Björn Kerber, Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe, exh. cat. (J. P. Getty Museum, 2017), p. 156, fig. 178, 158-159, 219, 242.
Detroit Institute of Arts and Art Institute of Chicago, "The Gold Age of Naples: Art and Civilization under the Bourbons, 1734–1805," 11 August–i Nov 1981, sixteen January–viii March 1982, no. 76.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, "Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe," from May 9-July 30, 2017; traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota from September 10-December 31, 2017, finally at the Cleveland Museum of Fine art, Ohio from Feb 25-May twenty, 2018, fig. 178.
London art market place [co-ordinate to 1981 letter from Ingvar Bergström in curatorial file]. Gunnar Trägårdh, Gothenburg, Sweden [according to Bergström letter cited to a higher place]. Sold by Trägårdh to Dr. Sven Langert, Gothenburg, Sweden, in the 1930s; sold by his wife, Majken Langert, Christie'due south, London, 26 November 1971, no. 85, to Ray Perman acting on behalf of Cyril Humphris and Herner Wengraf, London [according to Bergström letter cited in a higher place]. Sold Sotheby's, London, 19 Apr 1978, no. 156 (sick.), to P. and D. Colnaghi and Co., London [letter from Magdalen Elwes, Colnaghi, 7 September 1983, in curatorial file]; sold by Colnaghi to Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York, 1978 [letter from Elaine Banks, Feigen, 6 October 1983, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1978.
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