Woman Holding a Child Up To Touch a Statue of Aesculapius
Louis Hector Leroux, French, 1829 - 1900
1869
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 27 7/8 × 17 13/16 in. (70.8 × 45.2 cm)
Frame: 34 1/4 × 24 × 3 1/8 in. (87 × 61 × 8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alan P. Jones 1919 Fund
P.982.45
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, dated and inscribed, lower left to lower center: Hector LeROUX Rome 1869
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 2, Maggie Lind, Class of 2002, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 15, 2001-January 20, 2002.
French and Continental Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenthe Century, Spring Exhibtion, Shepherd Gallery, New York, New York, 1982.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.
Publication History
Shepherd Gallery, Nineteenth Century European Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Winter Exhibition, New York, 1979, no. 64. ill.
Provenance
Shepherd Gallery, New York, New York, date unknown; sold to present collection, 1982.
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