Alexandre Cabanel (Montpellier 1823-1889 Paris)

Study for a figure in The Triumph of Flora

Details

Alexandre Cabanel (Montpellier 1823-1889 Paris)
Study for a figure in The Triumph of Flora
signed indistinctly
red chalk on buff paper
17 x 11 1/8 in. (432 x 284 mm.)

Provenance

Patrick Poncet, Paris.
With Galerie Coligny, Paris, 1984.
Hugues Gougon, Paris.

Lot Essay

A study for a falling figure in Cabanel's 1870 ceiling decoration, The Triumph of Flora originally for the Palais des Tuileries, now at the Louvre. Cabanel's work on the project was halted by the war in 1870 and destroyed during the Commune of 1871. In 1872 Cabanel made a second version of the ceiling design which is the one now at the Louvre.

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