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Bellona Presenting the Reins of his Horses to Mars,
1766
Louis Lagrenée, French, 1724–1805
y1975-15
Information
Title
Bellona Presenting the Reins of his Horses to Mars
Dates
1766
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
99 x 145 cm (39 x 57 1/16 in.)
frame: 122.6 x 164.5 x 7 cm (48 1/4 x 64 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1975-15
Signatures
Signed and dated lower right: L. Lagrenee / 1766
Culture
Type
Subject
Guillaume Mazade de Saint-Bresson, probably Hotel Castanier, rue des Capucines, Paris (1763-); ?art market, Aix-en-Provence, France (early 1970s); anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, July 18-19, 1974, lot 96 to James; Central Picture Galleries, New York (in 1975, sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Denis Diderot [text prepared by Jean Sezne and Jean Adhemar], Salons, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1957-)., Vol. 3: p. 21-22, 89-91, 117; pl. 1-2bis; pl. 2 bis
- Fine pictures by Old Masters: Thursday, July 18, 1974 ... and Friday, July 19, 1974 ..., (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1974)., pl. 23
- Diderot, et. al., Œuvres complète, (Paris: Hermann, 1975-2004)., Vol. 16: p. 130, fig. 13; p. 123-124
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31., p. 23
- "Acquisitions", Art journal 35, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): p. 403-409., p. 404; p. 405 (illus.)
- Else Marie Bukdahl, Diderot, critique d'art, (Copenhague: Rosenkilde et Bagger, 1980-)., Vol. 1: fig. 23; p. 89
- Marc Sandoz, Les lagrenée, (Paris: Editart Les Quatre-Chemins, 1983-)., Vol. 1: p. 100; p. 206-207, no. 162; p. 352; pl. XXIII, no. 162
- Diderot et la critique de Salon 1759-1781: Musée du Breuil de Saint Germain, Langres, 2 juin 1984-16 septembre 1984, (Langres: Musée du Breuil de Saint-Germain, 1984)., p. 94, no. 23; p. 95-97
- Else Marie Bukdahl, "Les problèmes d'identification des oeuvres d'art dans les Salons", Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, no. 254 (1988)., p. 234-250; p. 346-47; fig. 7
- Else Marie Bukdahl, "Lagrenee the Elder: "mythology' and "allegorie"", Bulletin (Allen Memorial Art Museum) 43 (1988-1989): p. 27-33., p. 32, fig. 6
- Betsy Rosasco, "Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée's Four Estates and Their Patron, Guillaume Mazade de Saint-Bresson," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 2 (1993): p. 2–25., p. 2, fig. 1
- Norman Muller, "Addendum: Conservator's Note" of "Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée's Four Estates and Their Patron, Guillaume Mazade de Saint-Bresson," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 2 (1993): p. 26–27., p. 27, figs. 1–2
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Jill Casid, "Commerce in the Boudoir," in Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam, eds., Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, (Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003).
, fig. 5.5, p. 103 (illus.) - Pierre Rosenberg, Parcours d'un collectionneur: L'histoire, la fable, et le portrait, (Sceaux: Musée de l'ile-de-France, 2007)., p. 122, fig. 24c (illus.)
