Attributed to JOSEPH FRANQUE (1774-1833)

Lot 143

143

Details

Attributed to JOSEPH FRANQUE (1774-1833)

Hercules

oil on canvas--unframed
77¼ x 57in. (181 x 144.8cm.)

Provenance

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; his sale, Sotheby's, New York, June 1, 1989, lot 111 ($12,000 to Rudolf Nureyev)

Literature

Possibly J. Foucart, in the catalogue of the exhibition, French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution, Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, p. 420

Exhibited

Possibly Paris, Salon, 1806, no. 207 as 'Hercules arrachant Alceste des enfers'