The Death of Alcestis

Artist Pierre Peyron French, 1744–1814

Date1794

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions38 1/4 x 37 11/16 in. (97.2 x 95.7 cm)
Frame: 46 3/4 x 46 3/8 in. (118.7 x 117.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from gifts by Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Linsky, Mrs. George Khuner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, anonymous gift, Lady Marcia Cunliffe-Owen, William Walker Hines, and Mrs. Alfred Elliott Dieterich, by exchange.

Object number91.1

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ProvenanceExhibited at the Salon de l'Académie de Peinture, 1791, no.116 /118; Deloynes collection, by 1881; Parisian art market, ca. 1985, where said to have come from an unidentified private collection in Aix-en-Provence; private collection, Paris, until 1989; sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, June 16, 1989, lot 398; bought by Colnaghi, New York; sold to NCMA, 1991.

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