Object number1977.66

The Fountain of Bacchus

DateNd

Artist Jacques de Lajoue, II (French, 1687-1761)

CultureFrench

MediumOil on Canvas

DimensionsFramed: 38 x 45 x 3 1/2 in. (96.52 x 114.3 x 8.89 cm)
Unframed: 28 1/8 x 35 7/8 in. (71.44 x 91.12 cm)

Credit LineGift of E. Powis and Anne Keating Jones, class of 1943

On View

Not on view

Period17th c

Classification(s)

Painting

InscribedInscribed (LL, in red): 949 (according to Cailleux, probably the mark of an 18th c Russian collection)

BibliographyAlan Wintermute, Ed. Claude to Corot The Development of Landscape Painting in France, (Colnaghi USA Ltd. 1990), pp. 149, Plate & Exhibition no. 23; Joseph Baillio, "French Rococo Painting: A Notable Exhibition in Atlanta," (January 1984), p. 23, not repr. Promised Gifts '77, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1977), p 7 repr

Vassar Exhibitions

Selections from the Permanent Collection (1990)

Exhibition HistorySouth Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, "Valenciennes, Daubigny and the Origins of French Landscape Painting," mid August-mid December 2004;

Oberlin, Ohio, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, "THe Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1640-1800," March 10-November 1, 2005;

NYC, NY, "HIghlights from the Vassar College Collecion," IMB Gallery of Science and Art, July 13-September 11, 1993;

Atlanta, Georgia, The High Museum of Art, "The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the 8th Century," October 5-December 31, 1983. Cat. text by Eric M. Zafran. Cat. no. 62, p. 136, repr. p.;

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Promised Gifts '77," April 20 - May 22, 1977.

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