Charles Le Brun

The Sacrifice of Polyxena



Charles Le Brun - The Sacrifice of Polyxena



Charles Le Brun
The Sacrifice of Polyxena
1647
177.8 x 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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External links


Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2013.183

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Charles Le Brun The Sleeping Christ Child
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Charles Le Brun Alexander and Porus
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Charles Le Brun Portrait of a boy
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Charles Le Brun Portrait of Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France
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