Currently not on view
Moses Commanding the Waters to Close upon the Egyptian Host,
1858
Hippolyte Flandrin, French, 1809–1864
y1978-37
Information
Title
Moses Commanding the Waters to Close upon the Egyptian Host
Dates
1858
Maker
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
48.5 x 57 cm (19 1/8 x 22 7/16 in.)
frame: 61 × 71.4 × 6.1 cm (24 × 28 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
Object Number
y1978-37
Signatures
Signed and dated lower right: Hte Flandrin 1858
Culture
Type
The artist (until 1865; sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 15-17, 1865, room 5, lot 5, to Haro); Count of Lambertye sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 17, 1868, lot 23, to Hunolstein family; anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 14, 1973, lot 6; Shepherd Gallery, New York (by 1975-78; sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Catalogue des tableaux, esquisses, études, dessins & croquis laissés par H. Flandrin et quelques tableaux anciens: dont la vente aura lieu par suite de son décès Hôtel Drouot, salle n. 5, les lundi 15, mardi 16 et mercredi 17 mai 1865, (Paris: Impr. Pillet, 1865)., Room 5, no. 5
- Martin L. H. Reymert, et. al., Ingres & Delacriox through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: the figure in French art, (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1975)., no. 65 (illus.)
- Elzea Rowland and Betty Rowland, The Pre-Raphaelite era, 1848-1914: an exhibition in celebration of the Nation’s Bicentennial, April 12-June 6, 1976, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, (Wilmington, Delaware: Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1976)., p. 30, fig. 2-15; p. 31
- Jan G. Milner, French 19th century paintings, (London: Alpine Club Gallery, 1977)., no. 36
- The Second Empire, 1852-1870: art in France under Napoleon III, (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978)., no. VI-52 (illus.)
- John Minor Wisdom, French nineteenth century oil sketches: David to Degas, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978)., no. 31 (illus.)
- Bruno Horaist, "Hippolyte Flandrin a Saint-Germain-des-Pres", Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français 1979/81 (1981): p. 211-232., p. 226, no. 60
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1978," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 38, no. 1 (1979): p. 14-38., p. 21; p. 20 (illus.)
- Martin L. H. Reymert and Robert J. F. Kashey, Christian imagery in French nineteenth century art 1789-1906, (New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1980)., cat. no. 80; p. 236-37 (illus.)
- Hippolyte, Auguste, et Paul Flandrin: Une fraternite picturale au XIXe, (Paris: Ministère de la culture, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1984)., p. 143, no. 63; p. 142 (illus.)
- Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, (New York: Grove, 1996)., Vol. 29: p. 624 (entry for "Stella, Jacques")
- Carlo Sisi and Ettore Spalletti, Nel segno di Ingres: Luigi Mussini e l'Accademia in Europa nell'Ottocento, (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2007)., cat. no. 76, p. 238, illus. p.239
