Charles Le Brun
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
1647177.8 × 131.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left: C.L.B.F. / 1647
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, 2012 Benefit Fund, and Bequest of Grace Wilkes and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2013
Provenance
?Baudot, Dijon
?by descent to M. Court, Dijon, until 1900
sale, M. Brenot, commissaire-priseur, Dijon, 12ff. February 1900, nr. 119
Hotel Ritz, Paris, probably late 1980s–2013
sale, Christie's, Paris, 15 April 2013, nr. 36, to MMA
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Other works by Charles Le Brun
Portrait of Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France
c. 1655
c. 1655
The Israelites crossing the Red Sea
The Resurrection
1674-1676
1674-1676
Établissement de l'Académie des sciences et fondation de l'Observatoire (1666)
1673/81
1673/81
Daedalus and Icarus